Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.' — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You can't go do the Green New Deal, but Republicans can't just criticize the ideas of Democrats without proposing an alternative. — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical… — John Maus Copy Share Image
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they… — George H. Miley Copy Share Image
News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United… — Charles Lemert Copy Share Image
The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
