Creativity Quote by Thomas A. Edison Download Open image “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” — Thomas A. Edison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Imagination Invention Junk Science
To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means. — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. — Ray Dolby Copy Share Image
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else. — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve. — Sebastien Foucan Copy Share Image
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything… — Brassai Copy Share Image
There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image