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.

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.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

[Kennedy] did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

There are more people at Obama’s table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans’ threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn’t get...

Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can’t know the amount you will need!

The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up...

If you think that your life is amazing, wait till you see what God has lined up for you in the future. But remember, you have to keep pushing forward with bigger goals and ideas.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It’s about asking an impossible question, “What if…?” and building a story out of the answer.Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical...

I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe.

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy.

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to...

You don’t accomplish a lot by changing people’s opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people’s opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person....

Ideas are like sperms. Dangerous ideas are like fertile sperms.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to...

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!

Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

A veces se sale para ir a algún sitio. Y a veces se sale sólo para andar y andar y seguir andando, hasta que la niebla se disipa, la desesperación disminuye o se acaba de...

Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be...

In art one idea is as good as another.

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one’syouthful ideals.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way...

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another...

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitueds–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all...

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books ‘any old time they have a mind to,’ libraries will...

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does...

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

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