#ideas

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#plots #writing #writing-life #life

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#ideas #office #public #public office #run

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#creativity #ideas #art

The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it's making them steal your ideas! ↗

— Howard Aiken

#ideas #research #science #business

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#books #ideas #movies #movies

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#ideas #music #music

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #people #nature

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

#habit #ideas #opinions #thought #views

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #nature

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#new-ideas #man