Diane Keaton Quotes

How does anybody ever think of anything?

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

An idea is a feat of association.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.