Travis Bradberry Quotes

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

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

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

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

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

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.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

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

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.