Ilka Chase Quotes

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius.

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

The hero is the one with ideas.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

He, who can create, abhors destruction.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.