Attic Quote by Geoff Mulgan Download Open image “The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.” — Geoff Mulgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attic Classic Grand Ideas Sitting Supposed Thinking Up
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“When you evolve a thinking creature, you evolve a creature that will think about all sorts of things, including its place in the universe… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But” — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things. — Limmy Copy Share Image
“The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat!… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks -… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories,… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's… — John Oates Copy Share Image
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I had a short run as the presenter of 'Cash in the Attic'. It's a very popular show but didn't really suit me. — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home. — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
“Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
