Chinua Achebe Quotes

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Imagination - that's the future for us.