Nikola Tesla Quotes

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Ideas are the root of creation.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

Imagination is something you do alone.