Innovative Thought Quotes

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I always try to think in curves.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.