Ideas Quotes

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Ideas are meaningless without action. Everyone has ideas. To succeed, make your ideas real. Make them happen. Everything else you will learn along the way. Be awesome.

Great ideas are based on what we make others believe is their ideas.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Fashion is the enemy of ideas.

Epiphanies don't come from staring at your naval; rather, from the cross-pollination of ideas.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

When an idea can't be articulated simply, crisply and accessibly, there is usually something wrong with it. When I hear a good idea, it has an effect on my mind and body. Sometimes I feel it in my stomach, other times in my throat, still others on my skin - a kind of instant truth detector test.

A man who sets his face against every sort of humbug is simply a three-cornered, impracticable fellow. There's a bad sort of humbug, but there is also a good style - one that oils the wheels and makes progress possible. If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas... There is no action possible without a little acting.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

We should think of ideas as connections,in our brains and among people. Ideas aren’t self-contained things; they’re more like ecologies and networks. They travel in clusters.

Innovation comes from creating environments where ideas connect.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.