Lisa Randall Quotes

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Creativity is about a reaction.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

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

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

I always got ideas.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

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

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

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

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.

I have fantastic ideas.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Everything begins with an idea.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.