Quotes About Ideation

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Think more design less

Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong

bit is about how an intrusive suicidal ideation can show up when you least expect it, how true deep despair appears out of nowhere. That is terrifying because it feels like a killer on the loose.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Everything in the material world is first created on the level of thought.

Nothing exists in our world that does not first exist in our mind.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

You don't just get it, the way you just get a cold; you take it into your head, consider it as an idea first, play with the behaviors awhile, see if they take root.

Did persistent ministerial ideation constitute a call to the ministry? For more literal religious people, a call was God tapping your shoulder, or saying your name in the wind, or ordering you around in dreams the way Yahweh harassed the prophets. In our progressive, rational, scientifically minded denomination, a call isn't—or shouldn't be—so supernatural.

Ministry does involve a lot of writing," said Sparlo. "And I love the sermon," I blurted. I knew, I went on, that there was much more to church than preaching. The more involved I'd been over the past two years, the greater my interest in church administration, governance, and polity. I didn't know if this interest constituted a call, I said, but I'd been having ministerial ideation for well over a year.

Everything has to start in the head, at the mental level, before the manifestation is reached.

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process

It was hard to say if the statement was some sort of suicidal ideation, but one could hope.