Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

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

You don't disrupt genius at work.

I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

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

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.