David Droga Quotes

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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

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!'

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.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

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

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.

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

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.