It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
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.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
A great idea is not enough.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Sanctions are a bad idea.
I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.
All good ideas arrive by chance.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Paris is always a good idea.
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
I have no idea how women manage their hair. Seriously.
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