It’s difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you’re always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I’m trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that...

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always...

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Whether it is your body, your mind, or the world – the idea of keeping a distance from it is to have a better perspective of everything.

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn’t say a lot for English football. We’d probably be on a downward spiral. It’s good that people have different ideas about...

I don’t think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I’m sure it’s very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at...

We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”(The Decider, July 21, 2007)

We have to face the idea that we’re completely nobody right now

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world,...

Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another as coaches very well. He has also become a great friend of mine.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Impossibility” never exists!

You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don’t train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly...

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it...

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

Ideas do not work..It is YOU who has to do the work….

I don’t usually comment on columnists’ ideas of what I’m thinking. That’s a dangerous game to get into.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows…

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas – such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal...

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Sometimes an actress is so good you get ideas, … She’s really someone who inspired Denis and me early on. We’re always thinking, what if. I said to her, ‘I don’t know where we’re going...

Lure him out. Send in a ‘customer’ with a message from me needing to meet him. I’m not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he’s out, we...

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn’t work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

I’m used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.

la buena literatura podía ser embriagadora sin renunciar al hilo conductor de las ideas.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they...

INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent –as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable...

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those...

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available,...

I did feel like a woman alone in the sex industry, … And there were a lot of preconceived ideas. I had great difficulty in persuading newspapers to take … adverts and hotels. I was...

It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Just preaching “you are blessed” to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.”[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011]

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a...