Quotes About Ideas

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Then one evening, contrary to his custom, he drank black coffee and couldn't sleep. Ideas arose in crowds. He felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology—they are not my own. I haven't really had a new idea in years.

Science provides us with some of the most elegant, stimulating puzzles that life has to offer. It throws some of the most provocative ideas into our arenas of moral debate. Occasionally, it improves our lives. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means that you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Människorna är oändligt glada om man lämnar dem i den situationen att de inte kan förverkliga sina idéer!

E de facto bem pode dizer-se que as ideias inesperadas nos vêm porque estávamos à espera delas. São, em grande parte, o resultado conseguido de um carácter, de certas inclinações constantes, de uma ambição tenaz, de uma incessante ocupação com elas. Que tédio, uma perseverança assim!

Ich bin immer in einem Mann-Mannesverhältnis zu den sogenannten großen Ideen gestanden; vielleicht auch zu den mit Recht so genannten: Ich glaube mich nicht zur Unterordnung geboren, sie haben mich gereizt, sie zu stürzen und andere an ihrer Stelle zu setzen. Ja, vielleicht bin ich gerade von dieser Eifersucht zur Wissenschaft geführt worden, deren Gesetze man in Gemeinschaft sucht und auch nicht für unverbrüchlich ansieht.

I had found the truth, I had dug the truth up out of the ash pile, the garbage heap, the kitchen midden, the bone yard, and had sent that little piece of truth to Adam Stanton. I couldn't cut the truth to match his ideas. Well, he'd have to make his ideas match the truth. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. The truth shall make you free.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

Architecture strives to be the perfect embodiment of an idea as free as possible from all flaws or defects. It requires a process of methodical and relentless refinement.

A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If

I find so many people struggling today, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were, and they resist change.

Most of those ideas never got off the ground, yet they gave us great mental exercise.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

But she remembered in time that she had an imagination and could use it.

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

I mostly always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas.

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?

At a meeting in a formal, hierarchical setting, a powerful player can get away with killing a good idea. But informality encourages people to test their thinking, to experiment, and to cross-check.