Ryan North Quotes

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I'm always creative.

I need to be creative all the time.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I have fantastic ideas.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

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

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

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.

You have to create something from nothing.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.