Quotes About Ideas

Where do you get the inspiration for your books? I tell myself I can't have another cup of coffee till I've thought of an idea.

Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe... The new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to 16 entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors.

Where do you get inspiration for your books? I tell myself I can't have another cup of coffee till I thought of an idea.

Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in.

People often ask where I get my ideas from, sometimes as often as eighty-seven times a day. This is a well-known hazard for writers, and the correct response to the question is first to breathe deeply, steady your heartbeat, fill your mind with peaceful, calming images of birdsong and buttercups in spring meadows, and then try to say, It's very interesting you ask that... before breaking down and start to whimper uncontrollably.

Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is "Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're not!

Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves—and so it is actually

We should come to know that there is more Reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about Reality.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.

Los argumentos se me ocurren en los momentos más insospechados, como cuando voy caminando por la calle o me estoy probando un sombrero en una tienda y, de repente, una idea espléndida me viene a la cabeza.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

So many noble ideas flowing about. But then, you see, whom have you got to work out the ideas with? After all, only the same human beings you've always had. You can create a third world now, or so everyone thinks, but the third world will have the same people in it as the first world or the second world or whatever names you like to call things. And when you have the same human beings running things, they'll run them the same way.

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.

I had an idea that you would not. My little ideas, you know, they are very valuable to me.

If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do something with it, then you toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That's not nearly such fun–it becomes hard work. Alternatively, you can tuck it carefully away, in storage, for perhaps using in a year or two years' time.

On contact with sensuous experience, the intellect is able to generate first principles, and, with their help, it gradually builds up what it knows. But it is thus able to construct truth only because it is itself a participation in Truth. The mind is the light of divine truth -- analogically speaking, by way of participation. It is a participated likeness of the uncreated light in which the ideas of all things dwell.

I figured out once that if you decide to have fun when you give a public talk, then you relax. It is psychologically impossible to have fear and fun at the same time. When I am relaxed, ideas flow freely into my mind during my talk, then leave through my mouth with the smoothness of eloquence. Moreover, the audience doesn't get bored when it is fun.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.