7,440 Quotes About Ideas

The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax.

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

All truly great ideas have come to most men, thousands of times unsought. But to make them truly ours, we must honestly think on them over again, fine-tuning them to serve a purpose that will solve one or more of humankind's problems. By executing those ideas, they become truly ours.

Some ideas are an expedition.

My ideas come from the dark recesses of my mind, reaching out with tendrils of shadow, pulling me in and turning my world into a constantly shifting whirlwind of reality ranging from space exploration and alien worlds to teleporting cats, time travel and mind reading. You know, the usual places.

It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.

Ideas are the basic building blocks of the universe.

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible.