George Orwell Quotes

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.