Quotes About Ideation

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

The results are only infrequently a matter of murder, but world as well as individual events ride upon the waters of an ideational sea. The killing fields of Cambodia come from philosophical discussions in Paris.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

Four vital functions, as basic as the four elements: sexuality, sociality, ideation and glory. Or: pleasure, speech, thought and prestige. Being deprived of any of the four leads to stupor and death.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

the first circle, I had written the word ideation, and above the third was implementation. The middle circle is what we found most fascinating, or perhaps novel, and above it was the word activation. We labeled this the "Three Stages of Work." Each circle was filled with half a dozen other words to describe what it meant.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

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

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

Design thinking provides a set of creative methodologies for solving problems and generating ideas that is based on building up solutions, rather than starting with the answer.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.

When people take off the headset, they immediately have a creative idea about what they can make in virtual reality, and a lot of them immediately want to get involved.