Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

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

Imagination comes of not having things.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

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

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

We especially need imagination in science.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

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

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

I like trying to be creative.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

Constraint inspires creativity

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.