Frederick Banting Quotes

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

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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.

You can't rush inspiration.

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

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.