Quotes of: Right-idea Keyword

We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovabl...

The meaning of atheism

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is...

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

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter ...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take o...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have...

The Fountainhead

Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in...

Oliver DeMille

The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels....

Rupert Sheldrake

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we've lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do... Patience, peace and rocking renew ideas. Just holding th...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

Darkness Falls

Forever and an Instant Forever and an instant met up one day, had a short but lovely talk, then each went on its way.

Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Ender's Game

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Elric: The Stealer of Souls

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

Flight Behavior

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Genesis

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.

Halfway to the Grave

I have no idea what you are doing...who you really are, but there's something about you that makes me think you are good for me." ~Raina

The Awakening

what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

The Brothers Karamazov

...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Mindy Kaling

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

Dana Schutz