Dee Hock Quotes

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

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.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

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

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.