quotations about ideas
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.
STEPHEN KING
Under the Dome
A man is not clever simply because he has many ideas, just as he is not necessarily a good general because he has many soldiers.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
NEIL GAIMAN
"Where do you get your ideas?"
Ideas are born in chaos.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Who knows if the idea does not make a very tiny noise like the finest instruments and empirically unravel (by comparison and experiment) what would be.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
Levels
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
SCOTT ADAMS
Stick to Drawing Comics
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
STEVE ALLEN, More Steve Allen on the Bible
Religion
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood
I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
CHINUA ACHEBE
interview, Okike, 1990
Ideas come from everywhere. New ideas are never the problem; finding the time to act on them – that’s the problem.
CHERIE PRIEST
Alternative Magazine Online, Jul. 18, 2011