Quotes About Ideas

The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.

Don't give up. Defend your ideas, but be flexible. Success seldom comes in exactly the form you imagine.

What is meant by a 'pure heart' is this: one that is watching and pondering what God says and replacing its own ideas with the Word of God.

The most disruptive paradigm shifts often emerge from the fringes, challenging the status quo with new and unconventional ideas.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

Maizy was a little bit afraid of what it might be because Pa had gotten a few wild ideas in his day.

Play is, by definition, a safety space. If a designer or artist can make safe spaces that allow the negotiation of real-world concepts, issues, and ideas, then a game can be successful in facilitating the exploration of innovative solutions for apparently intractable problems.

Problems need to be understood before they can be solved, instructions need to be taken in before they can be followed, ideas need to be shared and absorbed before they can be evaluated.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

An open mind lets ideas out, as well as in" -Agatha Swanburne

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

The greatest dreamers have the greatest ideas. The greatest doers have the greatest achievements.

Simple ideas often make the strongest memes.

Thought leaders develop a bank of ideas that can be accessed in a moment and can be instantly customized to suit any audience or situation. They become a living encyclopedia of knowledge and expertise.

Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

The critical power… tends, at last, to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself… to make the best ideas prevail.

There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

The history of ideas matters because ideas make actors out of human beings, and they make actors out of us precisely insofar as they occupy this open, uncontrollable, and inherently unlimited universe of explanations, not the stultifying dogma of a supposed conceptual scheme, not the inert, always epiphenomenal utterances we call doctrines or first principles.