An idea that’s BOLD is worthless until SOLD!

Plotinus, ‘The One’ and the Source of MatterThe ideas that Plotinus developed as a neoplatonist writing about seven hundred years after Plato acknowledged the prior ancient philosophical work by pre-Socratic philosophers on elucidating the concept...

Besides his creative versatility, Anton Rupert will be remembered as a visionary, a creator of ideas, a product innovator, a philanthropist as well as a leader by the example he set.

Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you’re pregnant. Until they’re out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of...

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.

I’ve just had a really evil idea.””My favourite kind

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I...

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities.

My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You’re like a fart in the bathtub. [‘The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes’]

If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech...

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a...

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as...

The rest of y’all are lost because you don’t have a personal relationship with God—our God.” But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not...

We have all heard the expression, “the devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.

I don’t go in for ancient wisdomI don’t believe just ‘cos ideas are tenacious it means they’re worthy

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu­ca­tion and dis­cus­sion, per­haps it was pos­si­ble to get on with a very few sim­ple ideas about God. But...

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes’ sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that...

If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me...

We can’t all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.

You used to be able to just call people. You didn’t have to be on someone’s calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual,...

Those ‘back burner’ thoughts, the ones the brain isn’t quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don’t listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed...

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea

The tournament directors have a lot of ideas, and the players have a lot of ideas, … Unfortunately not every tournament director is willing to listen…and we probably don’t have the right people in position...

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which...

Innovation is about practical creativity – it’s about making new ideas useful…

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Once an idea is out and about, it can’t be called back, silenced or erased. You can’t contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind...

And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends,...

Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is...

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

I’m not good at selling laptops. I’m good at selling ideas.

I’m not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.