Virgil Abloh Quotes

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

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

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

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.

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

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Imagination comes of not having things.

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.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I'm always creative.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.