388 quotes found
“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 figu...”
“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the b...”
“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.”
“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.”
“A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!”
“If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!”
“Our ideas are like boomerangs,when you throw them they are destined to come back.”
“From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!”
“Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!”
“Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!”
“To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!”
“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one”
“We have to face the idea that we're completely nobody right now”
“The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing th...”
“One idea lights a thousand candles.”
“Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and...”
“Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.”
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?”
“The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an e...”
