Cass Sunstein Quotes

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

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

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.