Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the re...
Our big opportunity may be right where we are right now. We have the sense to realize that a single idea can change the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we live, that right now is one of tho...
(pl. ) of Idea
Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.
For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returnin...
Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.
Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.
If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without a...
Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.
Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselve...
I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.
The best ideas rarely arise in one isolated mind, but rather develop in networks of curious and creative thinkers.
The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.
I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way bey...
Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.
Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation
Never under-estimate the value of an idea