Quotes of: Ideas Keyword

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 It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones--bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.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

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words ...

Under the Harrow

He had thought it through, even though following his own logic was a bit like tracking a shadow through a tunnel, he was never sure the idea he was tailing at the exit was the same idea he had been following at the entrance.

Welcome to Braggsville

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legen...

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society

Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

Fifth Grave Past the Light

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

How to Create a Magical Relationship: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Love Life

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

John Archibald Wheeler