I think that we are able to put all these ideas together and finalize them soon,

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand...

Opinions of the masses kill the ‘extra’ in an ‘extraordinary’ idea.

knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.

(In reply to the question, ‘Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?’)There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy...

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Mediocrity is Death.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

There’s nothing more exciting than ideas.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if...

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at...

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people who put them into action are priceless

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

It’s not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

I don’t do much more than organise other people’s ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Ë Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the...

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if...

You can only be a thief of good ideas by listening

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

… A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter,” she had said. “But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.

A Cat Stevens record isn’t just Cat Stevens’ ideas. It’s Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on...

They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank discussions. And Shirley can join too because the pun works. The ideas of...

Ours is a resilient party. We’ve got better candidates and better ideas. That’s what matters most.

We used to be up against a lot of stupid money that invested in bad ideas. Now that most of the bad businesses have disappeared, the remaining companies are getting down to doing some real...

Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!

Long is the road from conception to completion.

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted,...

Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de...

Not once not twice but at least a dozen times i have advanced an idea to people who thought i was either dreaming , imagining the impossible or just in over my head. When the...

The good ideas will survive.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of...

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies.’

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think…and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

We hear ideas all the time that we could consider.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously “born” in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed...

Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be...

None of us need ever fear that we don’t have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.