Mark Haddon Quotes

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

I like trying to be creative.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Usually my ideas are small.

I love creative people.

The more you reason the less you create.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

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