Quotes of: Big-idea Keyword

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

Lipstick & Bolsheviks

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Pride and Prejudice

The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.

The Pleasure of the Text

I ordered an extra large handshake to go, but I had no idea it would be so greasy—or that it would leave a stain on my crotch. Ugh, politics!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

V for Vendetta

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Mmhh! I have several ideas, but I don't know where to start.’ ‘You mean to hear me shout your name?’ ‘Yes, that's one of the ideas I have in mind.

Worthless

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Conversations with Saul Bellow

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas flo...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Paulo Freire

Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing with ideas.

Paul Johnson

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Ray Bradbury

Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.

Richard Diaz

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

Ray Kurzweil

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

Scott McCloud