388 quotes found
“... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.”
“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must...”
“In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.”
“We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.”
“An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.”
“None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.”
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.”
“What happened is the least of it. Its a novel, and once youve finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matter are the possibilities and ideas that the ...”
“A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.”
“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
“...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.”
“The more good ideas you have, the more good ideas you will get.”
“I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.”
“...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking...”
“If you thought of it, don't be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.”
“Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”
“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; ...”
“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas...”
“This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies”
