Quotes about ideas
ideas connecting
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. Steven Johnson
ideas innovation looks
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
ideas people meetings
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
ideas may want
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 want to compete
ideas people viewpoints
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
ideas creating giving
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
ideas black-consciousness dies
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die Steven Biko
ideas littles ongoing
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth. Steven Erikson
ideas ugly cameras
There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting. Steve McQueen
ideas interesting stories
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! Steve Martin
ideas overthinking desire
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
ideas persons beside-you
…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…
ideas genius crippled
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. Stephen Hawking
ideas intuition leap
There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.
ideas scary forever
I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me. Stephen King
ideas giving trying
It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
ideas people divine
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
ideas doe surprise
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
ideas directors come-up
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive. Stellan Skarsgard
ideas judging matter
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives. Stendhal
ideas expectations lasts
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over. Stanislaw Lem
ideas design willing
Be willing to get fired for a good idea. Spike Jonze
ideas purpose consciousness
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states. Sigmund Freud
ideas resistance analysis
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.
ideas consciousness moments
A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.
ideas human-nature argument
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
ideas giving people
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen. Shirley MacLaine
ideas rooms because-i-can
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
ideas safety people
If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe. Shepard Fairey
ideas hours knows
I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea. Sergio Aragones
ideas keys execution
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key. Sergey Brin
ideas hands shoes
The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. Scott Westerfeld
ideas waiting pages
One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.