Jay S. Walker Quotes

Imagination comes of not having things.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

I like trying to be creative.

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

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

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

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

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

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Humans are very imaginative animals.

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

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!