388 quotes found
“We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the ...”
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is ...”
“Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.”
“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo”
“Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and spit out if they don't like it. But ...”
“Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its ...”
“Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.”
“Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”
“Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value.Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels ...”
“I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.”
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
“Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they w...”
“(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the...”
“Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.”
“The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.”
“Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.”
“The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our m...”
“Ideas and their creators run the worldones place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person freely accepts and uses.”
“For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.”
