Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I don't get my ideas from reading other people.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.