Cory Barlog Quotes

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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

I admire people who are creative.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.