Phil Crosby Quotes

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Eureka [I have found it]

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'