Glen Hansard Quotes

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

I'm a daydreamer.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

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 think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

I love to get inspiration from everywhere.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.