Robert Harris Quotes

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 apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It's coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don't even know where they are.

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

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

Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.