Best 15702 quotes in «ideas quotes» category

Photographs are like diamonds. Polish them well to make them priceless.

Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they are, and I have an idea.” That got the translator’s full attention. She looked up from the game, frowned intently at Tisarwat. “What’s it like? Does it hurt?” Tisarwat only blinked at her. “Sometimes I think I might like to get an idea, but then it occurs to me that it’s exactly the sort of thing Dlique would do.

Popularity is no boast. From politics to fashion, history has shown popularity is, too often, just a loud celebration of a common ignorance.

Positive people know what they are about to do and why. Because of this, when they are being haunted by the premature quest to give up, they focus their minds onto the joy of accomplishing their pursuits.

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

Principles triumph, they do not compromise.

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea

Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.

PR (public relations) Leadership is the art of giving those leaders a mediaphilic (tm) and newsworthy public, social network and intelligent press platform of BENEFICIENCE, for communicating and relating their working ideas.

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

Puppets do not have thoughts, they are more like our thoughts, images of our thoughts, as if our minds were populated with remnants of the older, more cliched stories that we manipulate and that manipulate us.

Racial theories still persist in this generation because of people who wants to utilize the ideas to create a monocultural society and be the ruling class

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

Rather than shooting for the moon ourselves, sometimes we have to first create the system that can facilitate others to get there. Worse case, you might not land on the moon…but even reaching the stars is one hell of an accomplishment.

Read everything and re-read the good stuff.

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real. Then there’s the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know. The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them. Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably ezdst, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love’s name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred? The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...

Remember that a burst of enthusiasm usually accompanies a new idea and that the tendency is for you to hurry and tell someone. The mental energy generated by your idea is thereby dissipated in talk rather than in thought. After you talk about it for while, you grow tired. Your idea flows out through the mouth like a weak, shallow creek. The energy that would have developed the idea is released and the idea dies. Don't you talk to anybody about any idea until you have fully developed it!

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer. Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical romance transposed to the past could be rewritten without the futuristic elements and still work as a story, which is something that can't happen with SF. It works in romance, because the story is the relationship and that depends on character, not setting. Lots of books take elements from multiple genres, and there are elements that put them into one genre or another, but setting isn't a key determinant.

Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts; but those who have fats in their positive ideas.

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.

Right. So no plans at all then?" Jenna frowned. "Other than rocking in the fetal position for a while?" "Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry," Archer offered.

She was teeny tiny, but her ideas made her a giant.

She had the sudden need to bake. To sink her fingers into warm dough, to smell yeast and create crusty rolls slathered with sweet butter. Or maybe a tart. Quiche with a flaky crust and filling of eggs, cheese and garlic and nuts. Or a brisket. She was back in Texas now. Something falling-apart tender with tang and spice. Grilled potatoes that tasted like heaven.

She’s like a universe of her own Like the stars misunderstood Lonely yet shining good

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ("Prêt-à-penser")

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ; S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ; Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là ! (If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even if They're just a hundred, still I face Sylla; If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth; And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!)

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

Simple ideas INVOLVE individuals; INSPIRE crowds; INNOVATE HUMANITY

Si nos pusiéramos a enumerar las series de las grandes ideas originales que el hombre ha alumbrado a lo largo de su historia, nos encontraríamos que son relativamente pocas y casi nunca enteramente originales. Las más cautivantes ideologías que ha producido Occidente son hijas de mil padres y siempre es posible hallar sus más remotas raíces en algún fragmento de un filósofo griego.

Siri ya utajiri ni mawazo ya mtu. Maisha unayoishi uliyataka mwenyewe. Amka uishi. Hii ndiyo siri kubwa ya utajiri kuliko zote ulimwenguni. Ukifikiria chanya maisha yako yatakuwa chanya, ukifikiria hasi maisha yako yatakuwa hasi. Unachofikiria ndicho unachokuwa. Siri ya mafanikio yako ni jumla ya mambo unayoyawaza.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

Sleep is serious killer for idea.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

Solamente pueden robarse las ideas pequeñas, las minucias que caben en un bolsillo. Las grandes creaciones son incómodas de llevar y no están al alcance de los descuidistas. Cualquiera puede hacerse con el slogan de un nuevo calzoncillo; la teoría de la relatividad, en cambio, es de usurpación casi imposible. Convendrá entonces tener ideas grandes o, en todo caso, procurar que (...) estén pegadas a nosotros de un modo tan íntimo y estrecho que nadie pueda arrancárnoslas del alma.

Some ideas are an expedition.

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.

Some ideas take you on an existential elevator.

Some ideas are existential luxury.

Some of the best ideas come from the darkness.