Alison Moyet Quotes

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

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

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

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

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

I'm always creative.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I like trying to be creative.

I need to be creative all the time.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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

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.

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.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.