You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile wor...
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing...
(pl. ) of Idea
Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!
Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.
Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.
Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and...
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites...
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
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...
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting a...
I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a strap wrapped around the whole house and ratcheted it tight to attach the trim; I had figured...
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
The hit and run of thoughts on ideas is a havoc.
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