The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. I say trick but what I really mean is challenge, because it’s a very hard thing to do.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, it’s the good ideas. And you may say, 'That can't be so. That's paradoxical. What he [Graham] meant was that if a thing is a bad idea, it’s hard to overdo. But where there is a good idea with a core of essential and important truth, you can’t ignore it. And then it's so easy to overdo it. So the good ideas are a wonderful way to suffer terribly if you overdo them

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

our minds can create new ideas from the components which experience has already given us, by combining together our existing ideas in new ways or by shuffling the components of our existing ideas, but we are quite unable to form any completely new ideas beyond those that have already been given to us by sensation or feeling.