Ideas Quotes
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... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.
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I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.
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The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.
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Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.
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Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
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If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.
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Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
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I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.
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The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
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It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.
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I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.
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I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
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An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.
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Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
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There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
