Some follow ideas. Others think of them.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis.

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Greenville is such a hotbed of creativity and innovation -- I know there are ideas out there that need to be submitted.