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...

I’m always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…. [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into...

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Holding on will not make something come back. In my experience, it actually pushes it farther away. You cannot go back and undo what’s done, my friends. You can only move forward. And if your...

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still...

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don’t care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something...

I cannot be very precise, but we are working on some ideas that maybe it is possible to get through.

Your thoughts carry you wherever you want to go. Weak thoughts don’t have the energy to carry you far!

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

We’re concerned about good ideas and bad ideas.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La … I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy the now,

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of...

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will...

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put...

To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a...

this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own...

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

She’s open to new ideas and opportunities and will be a natural for creating partnerships with Western Connecticut State University and capitalizing on the rich resources the university brings. Most importantly, she puts children first...

The ideas flow like milk and honey in my land, my mind.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I’m someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it’s from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that...

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean….I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the...

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone ‘stole’ an idea: no, no, a thousand...

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin’ 90k word novel is the hard part.