R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

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

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.