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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It’s one of the great ideas in science ever.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

When your head is about to explode, you shouldn’t dare call in a psychiatrist because you’re about bringing new ideas to world that will later label you a freak.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without...

That got me hooked. I found I had so many ideas. It’s kinda addictive when you win something.

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

I like to let ideas simmer in my brain until they’re well done.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Thank goodness we don’t live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that’s where my responsibility ends. But I just don’t wait for ideas....

If you thought of it, don’t be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

If you have ideas, bring them that night.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess. Even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough...

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his...

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn’t see what was the point. They don’t pay well enough for me to write other people’s ideas.

What the president is insisting upon are not new ideas, … Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Mi consejo para los escritores es practicar todos los días, escribir, escuchar lo que dicen las personas, observar que ahí en la calle o en sus mismos hogares se puede ver más de lo que...

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Ideas are like legs: what good are they if you can’t run with them, or spread them?

To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not...

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor’s horn-book and Mr Piddington’s law of cyclones, Ellis’s anatomy and Lewer’s midwifery, we have already...

I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a strap wrapped around the whole house and ratcheted it tight to attach the...

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I’d never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I’d quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was...

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one

We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers to thank. The thing about teaching is, I constantly get to learn.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who...

If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it...

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown...

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first...