Quotes About Ideas

Noble as the ideas of the Declaration of Independence were, it was obvious before the ink was dry that they clashed with a central fact of everyday life in America: slavery.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

we've found is that we don't have to generate creativity from scratch. We just need to help people rediscover what they already have: the capacity to imagine—or build upon—new-to-the-world ideas. But the real value of creativity doesn't emerge until you are brave enough to act on those ideas. That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Linus Pauling famously said, "If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.

If your CEO has enough good ideas to fuel the company's growth objectives in perpetuity, maybe you don't need to tap into the reservoir of talent at other levels of the organization. But the most innovative companies in the twenty-first century have transitioned from command-and-control organizations to a participatory approach that involves collaboration and teamwork.

If you have only a few ideas in your idea bank, you're more likely to settle on one of the few you have and defend it fiercely, even if it's not optimal. But when ideas are plentiful and easy—if you (or your team) have a dozen a day—then there's no need to become territorial about them.

Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

The kingdom of formal ideas will always be a weak neighbor to the kingdom of thrills

The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

Since moving to New York, she had been gradually abandoning her old ideas about the nobility of suffering.

Mr. and Mrs. Hankshaw were summoned from the waiting room where Saturday Evening Post fantasies had clouded their instinctive parental concern the way that Norman Rockwell's sentimental ideas cloud the purity of a blank canvas.

Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.

I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like Where do your ideas come from? Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had

A closed circle of opinion or ideas into which discontent or opposition is never allowed—or allowed only within circumscribed and stylized limits—loses its capacity to respond energetically or imaginatively to new challenges.

So what have Keynes's 'madmen in authority' done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state.

I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors' families, and social occasions had been mentally stimulating as well as entertaining.

Ten Things about Judaism and the Marketplace of Ideas 1. Jewish thought can enrich the lives of people, whether or not the people are Jewish. 2. There are many access points to Jewish

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.