Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

For ideas to truly stick, we must make contact with them repeatedly.

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

1. The Omnidoxy will reveal my philosophy to the world, and it shall encapsulate its ideas forevermore.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity,...

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the...

They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is...

I don’t have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don’t even know who the people are. I think that’s good, because then you don’t have preconceived ideas...

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching – that way, you pick up new ideas.

I hate our current leaders becouse they don’t know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

We become what we think; we don’t become what we don’t think about. When we think of a bigger picture, that’s what we get printed.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Ce n’est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.”(“It’s not the first time I’ve noticed how much more power words have than ideas,...

We began with an afternoon of brainstorming ideas about what we wanted the conference to address. We let these ideas sit for a couple weeks and continued e-mailing comments over the e-mail list-serve before meeting...

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn’t. Of course I wouldn’t make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I...

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

…at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams,...

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. […] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he...

A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That’s what an actor wants to do.

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

Having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it....

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison...

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in...

Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite misuse—and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That’s because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is...

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes...

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with...

There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into stories, into films, books, because they feel their lives are somehow...

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Positive people know what they are about to do and why. Because of this, when they are being haunted by the premature quest to give up, they focus their minds onto the joy of accomplishing...

If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!