Geoff Mulgan Quotes

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

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I don't study; I create.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Creativity is about a reaction.

I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.