David Seabury Quotes

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

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.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

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!

Just build things and find out if they work.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

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

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'