George Lucas:

Look around you. Ideas are everywhere.

Richard Florida:

Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi told me that the great physicist Freeman Dyson would often just sit in his office with his door open. To the casual observer, it appeared that he was doing nothing. But in fact Dyson was searching for the stimulation of interesting hallway conversation. After a week or two of absorbing the buzz, he would retreat behind closed doors to work alone on a new discovery.

Liz Danzico:

I need idle time in equal proportion to planned time; leaving time for the unplanned, and making sure there's enough time for a bit of nothing. It's this space that makes the planned more worthwhile.

David Lynch:

Ideas are like fish. Originality is just the ideas you caught.