Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re...

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That’s something I haven’t seen in a lot of powerful people.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

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...

I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under...

Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to “give up”. Tell them “not me”.

All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great...

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

It wasn’t a ploy, it was heartfelt and something I felt that from a continuity standpoint, I have strong ideas on what is necessary. Familiarity and continuity are certainly two intangibles that are absolute musts...

Sometimes it’s a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they’re never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don’t think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

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...

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.