Ideas Quotes - Page 7

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

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

Comments outnumber ideas.

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.

Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are.

Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.

An idea is only an idea until you breathe life into it.

The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

Alexier found that a dose of humility did wonders to one’s ability to grasp new ideas and, after all, it had been this very ability that made him the researcher he was today.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Ideas are bulletproof

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that.

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

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

A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols....It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt and become liquid and just as rivers can, from the most humble beginnings, flow for thousands of miles, through the most varied topography bringing nourishment and life with them wherever they go, so too can ideas cast in mathematical form flow far from their original sources, along well-defined paths, electrifying and dramatically affecting much of what they touch. pp. xii - xiii.

If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Education consensus is through exchange of ideas" Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value.Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels of seeds perhaps only one or two acorns will become a tree. The Squirrels destroy most of them, and the hard ground beneath the tree doesn't give the few remaining seeds much chance for a start. So it is with ideas. Very few bear fruit. Ideas are highly perishable. If we're not on guard, the squirrels (negative-thinking people) will destroy most of them. Ideas require special handling from the time they are born until they're transformed into practical ways for doing things better.

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world.