Quotes About Ideas

Intelectualii care nu-si incanta elevii nu-i influenteaza, nu formeaza oameni care gandesc, ci repetitori de idei.

El rechazo de una idea negativa podrá hacernos esclavos de ella. Rechace a una persona, y ella dormirá con usted, arruinándole el sueño. Perdonarla resulta emocionalmente más barato.

If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much we so desire, having conflicting ideas to first exhaust. Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief organic, ergo, true belief.

Enlightened ideas cannot be executed with rubber bullets.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

We will discover that everything we are carrying around in our minds is nothing but extraneous matter. It has been put there by our desires, rejections, reactions, thoughts, plans, hopes, ideas, and viewpoints.

The adoption of conceptual frames and grids put together by the collective efforts of others is the ingenious shortcut to knowledge that our species has carried far beyond anything known among other animals. The human world of ideas is a product of a division of intellectual labor over extended periods, whose fruits are socially shared and cumulative.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

Commerce brings this mingling of ideas, this breaking down of old creeds, and brings it inevitably.

If you look at companies like Twitter, Google, all these companies started with ideas and then everybody used it. In my world, people don't think like that. Rappers chase the next check. They become a slave to labels and eventually that money starts shrinking.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.