Saul Griffith Quotes

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

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

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

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.

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

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

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

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

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

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.