Christian Audigier Quotes

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

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

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

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.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

We especially need imagination in science.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

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

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

The power of imagination is infinite.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

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.