Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research.

If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.

The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever work I've done in terms of preparation or research or thinking about the scene or the character, it all kind of crystallizes in that moment in the morning. And sometimes I have the best ideas then.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

I like to wake up at six o'clock in the morning so I have a very long morning, so I have time to meditate. I can really tell that it makes a difference - the days I don't have meditation and the days when I do.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.