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...

That got me hooked. I found I had so many ideas. It’s kinda addictive when you win something.

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

I like to let ideas simmer in my brain until they’re well done.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Thank goodness we don’t live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that’s where my responsibility ends. But I just don’t wait for ideas....

If you thought of it, don’t be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

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.

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died,...

These are new ideas, … That’s why they are not comfortable.

Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they’ve got to be harnessed and put to work to have value.Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels...

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas...

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

You’re only as good as your next idea. And if you can’t agree on that, then it’s time to walk.

A philosophy must be livable; it can’t just be ideas.

We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers to thank. The thing about teaching is, I constantly get to learn.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who...

If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it...

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown...

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first...

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, “Where do you get your ideas?” When people ask me this, my usual response is, “Ideas are the easy part. The hard part...

Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants...