Charles Best Quotes

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.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

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.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

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

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Never compete, create.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Talent works, genius creates.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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

I have fantastic ideas.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Imagination comes of not having things.