Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

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

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

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

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

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

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

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

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

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

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

We especially need imagination in science.