Tom Wujec Quotes

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

I'm a visual person.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

Video is the most interesting and engaging way to share an idea with others.

Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of words. It's the difficult part when you're writing things that are basically abstract.

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.