...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs ...
Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
