Quotes About Ideas

Kids aren't the problem. It's parents. There's this whole little Armstrong haters' club that's practically a task force of the PTA. They won't admit to being bigots, so they want him fired for being a communist. Like they even know what a communist is!" I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. "Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids' heads.

even a bad idea is better than no idea. Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Where do I get my ideas? The more pertinent question is…how do I make them stop?

He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself--it is the occurring which is difficult.

When you can present your own ideas clearly, specifically, visually, and most important, contextually—in the context of a deep understanding of other people's paradigms and concerns—you significantly increase the credibility of your ideas.

He wanted his people to work together, to share ideas, to all benefit from the effort. But he was setting them up in competition with each other.

Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Americans believed in openness. Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

Great ideas come to us in the shower when it's the only time in the day when we're completely alone.

W]hat purpose does it serve to deny actual experience in order to run with an idea instead?

We … habitually overlay our direct experience of Truth with thoughts – with beliefs and opinions and ideas.

I]deas and beliefs are frozen views – fragments of Reality, separated from the Whole.

Para crecer con éxito se necesitan ideas, esfuerzo, acción y compromiso con objetivos a largo plazo.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

The words available in a programming language for expressing your programming thoughts certainly determine how you express your thoughts and might even determine what thoughts you can express.

Great video comes from thinking humans, not equipment.

The fields of psychology and psychiatry have also inadvertently contributed to the problem. Ideas that are not evidence-based proliferate, such as Freud's Oedipus complex (you are sexually attracted to your parents, which creates a hidden conflict, giving rise to anxiety), while evidence-based ones lie dormant.

Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.

As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.

One of the best things about having a blog is that you've got a place to run your craziest ideas up the flagpole and see just how quickly they get shot down.

Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways are not infallible. Much