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“But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the mornin...”
“Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The ...”
“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves wh...”
“Ideas come from everything”
“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.”
“Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and arent even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”
“The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.”
“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagin...”
“Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, ...”
“Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words,formulated by scholar into knowledge.”
“Knowledge alone benefits no one unless the person acquiring it does something with it. And great ideas are worthless unless they are implemented.”
“on "idea technology"--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think,...”
“An idea: a theory or an equation, might sit around unnoticed for decades, centuries, even, before it's rediscovered and put to some use. That's how it works: it makes connections with other ideas, ...”
“Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.”
“Being able to think through and successfully execute ideas, is the gap. The gap leads to success and is so narrow, few are willing to give themselves the final push to squeeze through to the other ...”
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world”
“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits, whic...”
“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.”
“The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.”
“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.”
