388 quotes found
“Labor gives birth to ideas.”
“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...”
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.”
“Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.”
“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
“There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.”
“The best ideas start as conversations.”
“Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.”
“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”
“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
“When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.”
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”
“It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?”
“The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.”
“For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.”
“There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.”
“Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.”
“The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new o...”
“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”