Masayoshi Son Quotes

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

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

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

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

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.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.