Simon McBurney Quotes

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Doubt is the father of invention.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

The best ideas come out of getting lost.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

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

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

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