David Perry Quotes

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.

I wake up every day like, 'How can I get better, how can I help my teammates be successful? I try to control what I can control and worry about us, nothing else.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.