Brooks Atkinson Quotes

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

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

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.

When I stand up in front of groups of people who agree with me, I know I have to really step my game up because I can't just sort of meet them where they're at; I have to take them somewhere else. They want you to challenge them and have good ideas.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

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

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.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

I get influence from everybody and everything.