Quotes of: Great-idea Keyword

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Of Human Bondage

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

How to Be Happy in Life: Easy to Use Happiness Tips, Ideas and Strategies to Be Happy

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

Babel-17

If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.

The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can test my own kids without human subject permission, so they pilot - I pilot my ideas on them. And so it is a tremendous advantage to have...

Paul Bloom

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedon...

Rosecrans Baldwin

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

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Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking With Easy to Use Ideas, Tips and Strategies

People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.

The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

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.

It Chooses You

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.

Oryx and Crake

Everyone is waiting for money. National currency is scarce because its creators keep it scarce. So people are experimenting with new ideas for issuing and organising money.

Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones--bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.

Mere Christianity

Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter.

Seize the Night

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.

The Serpent and the Rainbow

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall