Quotes
Quotes about Ideas
Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America.
Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 The Bible tells us very clearly that to "know" God is not an affair of the mind only, but an act in which our whole beingâheart, mind, and willâis vitally engaged; so that sheer intellectual speculation would enable us to form certain ideas about God but never to know Him. To be grasped, God's will must be met with a readiness to obey.
The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to Word and SacramentâGod's ideasâis there any faith to be shared or truth to articulate. However, the very setting in which this is received instills the fear of expressing it informally.
OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.
Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
You have to hatch ideasâand then hitch them.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexibleâhe is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
