Biz Stone Quotes

But out of limitations comes creativity.

If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

Constraint inspires creativity

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.