Inventive Ideas Quotes

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'

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

We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed on the hardwood floor. But they loved it. And so did we. We took them on adventures around the city.

I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

I used to tell really boring stories as a child, about my toy panda's nose falling off, or something equally dull.

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.