Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

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

My training and my inclination is to invent.