Peter Falk Quotes

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.