Tom Freston Quotes

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

We need innovation and creativity.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

We can invent only with memory.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

We should have more invention.