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.

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

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

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...