Brainstorming Quotes - Page 3

• Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Musical, Comedy, Lateral Thinking

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• I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Inspiration

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• My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Thinking, Ifs And

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

  Hazel Hawke

  Women, Moving, Empathy

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  Ed Koch

  Art, History, Killing

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• Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

  Robert M. Hayes

  Taken, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Thinking, Ideas, Experience

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• A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Success, Dream, Business

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• When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

  Jamais Cascio

  Exercise, Covering, Use

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• When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

  Howard Schultz

  Meaningful, Coffee, Organization

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• When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

  Chamillionaire

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

  Jenna Bush

  Character, Talking, Creative

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• We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.

  Joachim Trier

  Nature, Character, Years

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• Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).

  David Livermore

  Team, Ideas, Creating

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The smell of roses, my children's bright eyes and smiles, laughing with my husband, walking on the beach, using my hands to do crafts or play guitar, brainstorming, and drinking coffee, really good coffee.

  Lisa Loeb

  Beach, Children, Husband

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as I'm writing the chapter. I try to go for maximum surprises in PLL, stuff you don't see coming. It's a lot of fun!

  Sara Shepard

  Fun, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

  John Mason Brown

  Curiosity, Propulsion, Jet

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Limits, Speed

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• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

  Frank Barron

  Order, Giving, Imagination

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• We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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• As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment.

  Andrew Neel

  Ephemeral, Documentaries, Excitement

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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