Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

How does anybody ever think of anything?

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

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.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.