quotations about ideas
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
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
CHAMFORT
The Cynic's Breviary
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
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
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
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A.V. Club interview, Jan. 28, 1998
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
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