Tom Peters Quotes

I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

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.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

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

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I don't study; I create.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

We especially need imagination in science.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

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.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

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

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.