Whitney M. Young Quotes

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

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.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

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

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Imagination needs to be fed.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

True play is creativity.