Robert Frost Quotes

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

An idea is a feat of association.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Ideas come from curiosity.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.