Susan Blackmore Quotes

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

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

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

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

I have fantastic ideas.

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

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

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

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