When you have an idea, it is like carbon. It has potential. To make it into a diamond, you need to put in hard work. When you have a diamond, it may not be perfect. You need to polish it, improve it....
An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.
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If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the infl...
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only ac...
She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ide...
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to developmen...
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen mo...
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.