When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Read Summary
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. Read Summary
The last people with any ideas are young people. Read Summary
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Read Summary
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. Read Summary
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. Read Summary
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Read Summary
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Read Summary
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. Read Summary
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback. Read Summary
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Read Summary
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Read Summary
Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them. Read Summary
It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment. Read Summary
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Read Summary
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. Read Summary
With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. Read Summary
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it? Read Summary
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Read Summary
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. Read Summary