“It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.”
“Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.”
“Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.”
“There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.”
“Ideas and thoughts are like genes...more you keep inside yourself more it multply with same species consuming your whole energy to breed to produce same old ideas and thoughts again and again until it kills you. So, let it be interact with other species..take it out...make reaction with other peoples s thoughts and ideas and produce something new....produce new energy..new thoughts..new perceptions...”
“Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen”
“When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.”
“In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.”
“We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.”
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?”
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one s philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?”
“The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.”
“The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.”
“Ideas combined with courage can change the world.”
“Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.”
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“Mediocrity is Death.”