Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.