Donald Byrd Quotes

The more you reason the less you create.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Creativity is not about the fame.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

The creative mind is restless.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn't be that guy, that's for sure.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Creativity's about ownership.

I love to be creative.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.