Harvey Mackay Quotes

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

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

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

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

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

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

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

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

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

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

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.

Ideas are the root of creation.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

You can't rush inspiration.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.