The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world...

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

I can’t even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It’s not about the musical ideas – the sound itself is toxic. It’s like eating plastic broccoli.

The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Any ideas of ‘other’ are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of ‘normal.’

In a country of consciousness, ideas are its’ citizens.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good...

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw’s sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

It’s not how great the ideas are. It’s about how you write them, to make them great.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

What’s most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I’m a great believer of energy and emotion.

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable – say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls – I wouldn’t go there. An ‘idea,’ especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be...

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our...

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what’s priceless.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art…nothing is purely original. We’re all inspired by something…or someone. It’s a never-ending chain of ideas…and it’s magical.

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...

Truth, says instrumentalism, is what works out, that which does what you expect it to do. The judgment is true when you can “bank” on it and not be disappointed. If, when you predict, or...

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry...

We have an in-depth exchange of ideas on a number of issues and I am very interested in further pursing our discussions covering bilateral relations and questions of shared interests.

We want to support the teachers’ ideas and projects.

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front...

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

You can go get ideas from any institution, other museum, or public space. Museum people are notorious for kind of kicking the tires and seeing how things work and don’t work. For example, one place...

Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin’s officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto...

It’s a great fit for what we do. I have ideas about how to grow the magazine… I believe readers in this market want inside baseball. BIBR can really blow that up.

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy – which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest – is too callous for...

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to...

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

My grandfather would jump out of his grave and say, ‘Fill the public terrain with new ideas,’ … Don’t argue that someone can’t speak about their faith. Encourage more ideas about faith.

If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right…it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people’s ideas, to see if they’re similar to mine.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.