Karl Schroeder Quotes

I love to be creative.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.

You have to create something from nothing.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.