Quotes About Ideas

You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,' Miss Haxby said, after a moment. 'But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.

Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

You all think you have great ideas or Pokemon games, but if I actually listened to all of you and we combined all of your ideas in a game, it would be an unplayable monstrosity. You want a game with all the regions, but only the first generation Pokemons, yet all the legendary ones and such silly things. Whenever I receive one of these rants, I go to the development floor and read it out loud to all the Game Freak employees in a mocking voice, and we all laugh at you.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

Howard H. Aiken, a famous inventor, said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."[

If you lead an active intellectual and emotional life, your ideas will grow with you.

a small idea, applied consistently, can have disproportionately large effects.

The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they're never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

Expressing ideas is often the only way to fully understand what ideas are, and to know what it is you really think.

it didn't matter if the sketches were "right"; what mattered was that his sketch improved the quality of the conversation,

As superficial as public speaking can seem, history bears out that people with clear ideas and strong points are the ones we remember.

Either we don't read the things we claim we do, or we read them with incompetence, preventing ideas in the book from changing our behavior.

Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people won't understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at risk of becoming lonely, misunderstood characters.

Over time, creative masters learn to find, evaluate, and explore more combinations than other people. They get better at guessing which combinations will be more interesting, so their odds improve. They also learn there are patterns that can be used to develop new ideas.

By framing the problem around my simple scenario, we had a way to evaluate the merit of specific feature ideas: Will this feature get more people further along in the scenario? Will this get them more rewards when they publish? We decided feature ideas that address these goals were more important than all others.

In any organization, large projects require leverage, but few employees have any. People who have grand ideas but little influence wonder why no one supports them. They think the lack of support is a judgment on their ideas rather than the politics of authority.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

Before I forget, I keep a notebook (and more recently a voice recorder) with me at all times. Why? Because I never know when a good idea is going to come along. The first step to a great game is a great idea. Don't lose that great idea. Make sure you write it down!

Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.