This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the...

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

Sometimes,many precious moments in life are lost in making-up our mind to work with an idea or a solution that is easy to find.

This is an idea that has been shared with the administration, one of many ideas and many ideas are under consideration.

Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of...

Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that...

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for...

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That’s why writing fiction is so much fun: because you’re moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there’s always something...

As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they’ll be alright until I get to them. And my ideas and tastes may have evolved by the time I get...

Be lead by the present spirit of ideas in your wildest dreams. Their mysterious pull on your life is a singular) summons, sent with a divine invitation. Trust + obey this guidance. In accepting your...

What makes me different as a scientist is that I’m kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody’s knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people’s knowledge are making a...

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished,...

The irritating question they ask us — us being writers — is: “Where do you get your ideas?”And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not...

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Don’t be afraid of silly ideas.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there’s a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with...

To emend one’s thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in–sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove...

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating...

We have a lot of ideas forming and brainstorming, and we’re going to apply for the funds next semester.

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is...

I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

Different people have different ideas. We need to kill them—the ideas, not the people. The people we just need to torture.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to...

I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and...

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it’s about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you’ve got to live accordingly. You’ve got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that’s your life’s evolvement.

My ideas aren’t afraid of height.

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of...

Republicans are the party of ‘no,’ and Democrats are the party of ‘don’t know’ because it hasn’t fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

the ideas in the piece seemed to make such great sense.