Brenda Ueland Quotes

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

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.

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

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

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

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.