There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most...

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them...

The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!

When you are non-judgmental, you are happy. Happiness depends on you, on your thoughts, on your attitude, on your ideas and vision, and nothing else.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

Two similar words might lead to two similar ideas. They might also lead to the basement, which I recently converted into a dungeon/torture chamber.

I do my precalc homework, and then when I’m done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That’s the kind of weekend it is–the...

We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

I’m not the new Cameron Diaz. I’m not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don’t know where these ideas come from. I’d rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I’ll happily...

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

But the truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea, it’s always what you do with it.”(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)

Just as a fish doesn’t know it is wet, so companies often can’t see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming

You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn’t ideas, funding or experience. It’s excuses.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

We have a young and inexperienced bowling attack. So we have to come up with new ideas. We have to be a little better that what we have done so far.

Moćna ideja je apsolutno fantastična i potpuno beskorisna ako ne odlučimo da je ostvarimo

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn’t always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has...

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that’s the way I decided to go.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don’t chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they’ve been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It’s...

…ideas are definitely 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 this...

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Solamente pueden robarse las ideas pequeñas, las minucias que caben en un bolsillo. Las grandes creaciones son incómodas de llevar y no están al alcance de los descuidistas. Cualquiera puede hacerse con el slogan de...

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It’s a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and...

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things,...

Sometimes the greatest ideas are the simplest ideas, … It just made sense. If we want to become a better goal-scoring team, we should have a better idea of who’s scoring goals in practice and...

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That’s the difference between our brain and a computer.

Having a clone to bounce ideas off of would be a way to generate more ideas. Another way would be to build an idea generator that plugs into a wall socket and works only when...

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world...

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

I can’t even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It’s not about the musical ideas – the sound itself is toxic. It’s like eating plastic broccoli.

The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Any ideas of ‘other’ are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of ‘normal.’

In a country of consciousness, ideas are its’ citizens.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good...

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw’s sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.