When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come...

bury the hatchet and not violate the ideas of Independence Square because we stood there together and at that time we elected the president of Ukraine and not the prime minister.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what’s good for the shareholders and for the company.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in...

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These...

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people who put them into action are priceless

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

It’s not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

I don’t do much more than organise other people’s ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Ë Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the...

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

Debería ser rico para tener una secretaria a la que dictar, mientras camino, porque las mejores ideas se me ocurren siempre cuando estoy lejos de la máquina.

Has it ever happened to you,” Léon went on, “to come across some vague idea of one’s own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression...

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

I get a million ideas a day and I don’t put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: “Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with...

I think that we are able to put all these ideas together and finalize them soon,

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand...

Opinions of the masses kill the ‘extra’ in an ‘extraordinary’ idea.

knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.

(In reply to the question, ‘Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?’)There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy...

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Mediocrity is Death.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

There’s nothing more exciting than ideas.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if...

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at...

We hear ideas all the time that we could consider.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously “born” in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed...

Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be...

None of us need ever fear that we don’t have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Ideas and thoughts are like genes…more you keep inside yourself more it multply with same species consuming your whole energy to breed to produce same old ideas and thoughts again and again until it kills...

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Followers can’t give new ideas and never be a leader.

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if...

You can only be a thief of good ideas by listening

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them