Harper Reed Quotes

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Imagination decides everything.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.