Lightbulb Moment Quotes

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.