Johnny Depp

I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.

American Actor

John Hurt

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

British Actor

Tom Wujec

We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

Canadian Author

Devdutt Pattanaik

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

Indian Author

Jim Root

I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.

American Musician

Freddie Highmore

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

English Actor

Gene Luen Yang

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

Chinese Writer

Ian McShane

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

Dascha Polanco

I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

Dominican Actress

Jonathan Knight

Doodling can be a way to express thoughts or feelings you're not fully aware of.

Subconscious Drawing

People often doodle when their minds are occupied with other tasks, especially during long meetings or lectures.

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Doodles can inspire more detailed art or become iconic symbols.

Creativity Spark

The content of doodles can reflect mood, with chaotic scribbles showing frustration.

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Using 'doodle' as a verb in this way suggests informal or unstructured activity and is more casual.

Informal Behavior

Doodling can imply an unspecified amount of time spent without direction or purpose.

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As a noun, 'doodle' is a light-hearted insult and isn't usually seen as very offensive.

Mild Insult

Calling someone a doodle is often done in a joking, affectionate manner among friends.

Amicable Teasing

 So you're me, and you're in math class yet again, because they make you go every single day. And you're learning about, I don't know, the sums of infinite series. That's a high school topic, right? Which is odd, because it's a cool topic, but they somehow manage to ruin it anyway. So I guess that's why they allow infinite series in the curriculum. So, in a quite understandable need for distraction, you're doodling

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 doodling in classrooms and they have bosses who scold them for doodling in the boardroom there is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something and unfortunately the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene you know of an important person at a

Doodlers, unite! - Sunni...

 cemented over time whereas humans I mean whereas children approach the world sort of fresh and they're ready to make more interesting connections that's why we say that children are more creative so add rudl is is a term for what is basically a drawing and a doodle together and what we ask people to do is

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 so I actually had to ask you to draw little doodles for me to actually explain that. How was that for you? How was that experience?" "I mean, it was pretty difficult for me to visualize, too, so, it was interesting. Doing the storyboard actually helped me clarify in my head, like, how it actually works

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 There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something. And unfortunately, the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene -- of an important person at a confirmation hearing and the like --

Sunni Brown: Doodlers,...

 things that we did was we started to look at a doodle for her and so you can see her up there in the top writing all the way to iTunes cuz in this piece she talks about programmability of music so we love Ada she's our founder and that got me thinking about the lost history

The hidden history of...

 That is a very small number. Now, if these were random doodles or decorations, we would expect to see a lot more variation, but instead what we find are the same signs repeating across both space and time. Some signs start out strong, before losing popularity and vanishing,

Why are these 32 symbols...

 And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, alien worlds, robots, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting busted in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity

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 a picture, a drawing, a doodle. These ideas come from a variety of places. Cartoonists might find the idea from observing life, reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said

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 We start from doodles and sketches. And sometimes we make real plans. And sometimes we just start building. Building is at the heart of the hands on, deeply immersed

Doodle

To draw or sketch something without thinking, often while doing something else.

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A simple drawing made absentmindedly.

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To waste time aimlessly.

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A foolish or silly person.

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