Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Quotes to Explore
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
