Mary Shelley Quotes

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

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

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

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

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.