388 quotes found
“It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.”
“If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.”
“They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice”
“It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.”
“Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.”
“Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.”
“When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?”
“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unit...”
“He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the worlds store of ideas which had always ...”
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
“A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”
“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.”
“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people j...”
“People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible min...”
“All of our thoughts ideas are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.”
“I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye. No wonder I felt like a stranger in my own land.”
“Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ("Prt--penser")”
“An idle mind doesn't do justice to its potential”
“Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world.”
“Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace nov...”
