Cory Booker Quotes

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I like trying to be creative.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

I need to be creative all the time.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Imagination comes of not having things.

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

We can invent only with memory.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

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

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I'm always creative.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.