Quotes About Ideas

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It's weird—I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans

In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.

Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power.

What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?" or "What is a great company no one has started?" I will

The very word 'success' has become contaminated by our ideas of someone extraordinary, very rich, etc., and that's really unhelpful…. Ultimately, to be properly successful is to be at peace as well.

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue." —Thomas L. Friedman

Students should go to college with an open mind. I advise them to ignore all the absolutism around them, both in terms of ideas and people. When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing. Adopting an attitude of critical thinking is most crucial in learning anything.

Strong Views, Loosely Held

so many bad ideas that lead to authoritarian consequences begin with good intentions.

and well-being, including certain ideas, treatments, and procedures that may be hazardous or illegal if undertaken without proper medical supervision. These opinions

What if [you] just can't come up with 10 ideas? Here's the magic trick: If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . .

If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . . it's your brain trying to protect you from harm, from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain. The way you shut [this] off is by forcing [the brain] to come up with bad ideas.

Cuando algo es verdaderamente rompedor, el día previo era una idea descabellada.

What I discovered, which is what many writers discover, is that I write in order to think. I'd say, 'I think I have an idea,' but when I begin to write it, I realize, 'I have no idea,' and I don't actually know what I think until I try and write it. . . . That was the revelation.

Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.

There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas.

Truth is, young creative minds don't need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they've already got.

Si produces bastantes ideas malas, se te ocurrirán algunas buenas «La gente con dificultades para tener buenas ideas, si te cuenta la verdad, te dirá que tampoco tiene muchas ideas malas.

Explore possible solutions.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

The term "defense" in relation to psychology was first used by Sigmund Freud in 1894. He meant it to describe, as Anna Freud said, "the ego's struggle against painful or unendurable ideas or effects," which may lead to neurosis. The

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

People who use the sensing mode are engrossed in what is around them, look only for facts, and find it less interesting to deal with ideas or abstractions. Intuitive people like to dwell in the unseen world of ideas and possibilities, distrustful of physical reality. Whatever

Frankl's brand of therapy is sometimes considered, after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology, to be the third school of Viennese psychotherapy, and The Will to Meaning clearly points out the differences between his ideas and those of his compatriots. It