Jean Henri Fabre Quotes

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.