Backgrounds Quote by Albert Einstein

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events…

— Michel Foucault

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and…

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

People are attracted to confidence and a commitment to ideas, no matter what those ideas are. People can gravitate towards something being said passionately…

— Cameron Monaghan

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

— Jeff Koons

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

— George Henry Lewes

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

— Graham Chapman

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

— Rod Serling

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will…

— Harvey Dunn

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge…

— Northrop Frye

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of…

— Joseph Addison