Scott Reed Quotes

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

Ideas do not exist apart from the men and women who create them.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

I only think in live action.

I have to sit alone in a room and be alone with my own thoughts. It always starts with an idea, and once the idea grows, I have a concept of what I want to say, and once I go out there and start feeling the energy, that concept grows and becomes whatever it is.

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

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.