Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

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

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

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

I have fantastic ideas.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'