Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work....

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves....

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another. I derive more enjoyment, benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of deep sleep per night.

Inspiration can often be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident.... Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies toward solving the problems at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking can often be difficult, there seems to be no limit to which most people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it...

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. A genius'is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.”

“Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.” 

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Creativity is just connecting things.

It is the creative ability of a human being that separates him from all other animals.

If you are in the now, you are creative.

If you are in the now, you are creative.

Right conduct is governed by reason and creativity.

Most “superheroes” are nothing of the sort. They’re weird, neurotic creatures who do big things despite lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.

I miss writing, creating, and working on bigger projects. YES to that means NO to any games of whack-a-mole.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.