Analogies Quote by Kenneth J.W. Craik

“People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.”

— Brian Knapp

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and…

— Douglas Hofstadter

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

— Michel Gondry

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced…

— Jon Glaser

“Your brain will come up with a lot of ideas, that doesn't mean you have to go along with the very first one!”

— G. L. Strytler

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

— Chris Jordan

“Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.”

— Sylvia Clare

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....

— Ellen Langer