To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

— Julia Stiles

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something…

— Adam Grant

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go…

— Mao Zedong

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

— Nolan Bushnell

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

— Marcel Proust

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life,…

— Alan Alda

“If there are people in your organization who feel they are not free to suggest ideas, you lose.”

— Ed Catmull

“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at…

— Marcel Proust

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose…

— Raul Castro

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also…

— Lawrence Hargrave

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why…

— John Malkovich

If you win you need not explain……But if you lose you should not be there to explain.

— Anonymous

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term…

— Barry Ritholtz