After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.
Miranda JulyTags: ideas creative-process
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."
("It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.")
Tags: words power ideas influence argument rhetoric persuasion
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them."
[Life magazine, December 10, 1965]
Tags: reading books nature thought ideas
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
Thomas JeffersonTags: education ideas internet intellectual-property
Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: ideas
Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps.
StendhalTags: passion men sex french ideas romanticism
...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
Orhan PamukEvery writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
Jo LinsdellTags: ideas writers-on-writing writing-process writing-books writers-quotes
Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
Robert DieffenbachTags: inspirational advice determination ideas priceless million-dollar-ideas
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