Reinhard Selten Quotes

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

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.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

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

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.