Adam Grant Quotes

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Imagination is the air of mind.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

We especially need imagination in science.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

I'm always creative.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

I need to be creative all the time.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Imagination comes of not having things.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.