Quotes About Ideas

I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

I might even go for walks, just kind of come up with ideas in my head and then even sleep over it. And, yeah, the next day, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like that's when the ideas come, because you kind of wake up fresh and clean. You're not influenced from music on the radio or any other source.

At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

D'Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

Over the years you just pick up inspiration and ideas bubble away in my mind.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.