I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe.

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy.

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to...

You don’t accomplish a lot by changing people’s opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people’s opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person....

Ideas are like sperms. Dangerous ideas are like fertile sperms.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to...

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!

Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

A veces se sale para ir a algún sitio. Y a veces se sale sólo para andar y andar y seguir andando, hasta que la niebla se disipa, la desesperación disminuye o se acaba de...

Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be...

In art one idea is as good as another.

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one’syouthful ideals.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way...

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another...

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

All the students were in charge of interviewing, writing, brainstorming ideas and designing.

Great ideas doesn’t need approvals, they need application.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitueds–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all...

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books ‘any old time they have a mind to,’ libraries will...

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does...

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

we hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas…only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It’s the ideas I’m interested...

It was a little hard for me at first: I remember coming in with a ton of ideas, and I wanted to present them all, and they wanted to hear them, but at the same...

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

It’s important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people’s ideas and opinions, you won’t have room for your own.

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution...

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing – an interstellar kula chain – affirming the differences...

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I’ve always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.