David Lowery Quotes

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.