Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Big companies know that not all ideas come from one pool or one source of people, so they’re always looking for outsiders to come up with opportunities they may not have thought of. It’s a...

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

Wine gives one ‘ideas,’ whereas champagne gives one ‘strategies.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

Good intentions might sound nice, but it’s positive actions that matter.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root… Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the...

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is...

Chance favors the connected mind.

Miracles are caused by the laws of nature that are yet to be discovered.

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no...

It’s very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you’re the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn’t bother with you.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una vez terminadas. Lo interesante son las posibilidades e ideas que nos inoculan...

I have proposed many ideas, legislative measures to be taken by the European Union.

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief.

In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.

A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols….It is almost as if...

I don’t know if we’d have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

We’ve met twice and kind of got some ideas on players, staff and training camp. We’re just going through a process to give us some thoughts and some ideas from each other and see where...

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

The Audacity of Achievement:Engage your effort to be faithful to your finish. Go the distance. Stay with it until the end, committed to completion!Go ahead and give birth to your bodacious ideas.

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one...

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my...

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person’s life because you ultimately become what you believe.

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has...

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now...

Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words,formulated by scholar into knowledge.

When we implemented the Student Activities Committee, one of the ideas behind it was that organizations would get more money. We need to directly market it by talking to more organizational chairs to let them...

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows...

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his...

We are the prisoners of ideas.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry...

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don’t like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or...

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

[Kennedy] did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.