Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

An idea is a feat of association.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

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

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.