#ideas

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #basically #draft #faxes #first

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#experienced #getting #got #had #head

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#dead #ideas #science

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#ago #books #contest #every #go

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cannot #enables #get #ideas #our

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#come #enjoyed #guys #having #i

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#backgrounds #brings #different #different backgrounds #different people

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#clear #commitment #enable #firm #ideas

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ↗

— Richard Branson

#being #business #essentials #focusing #ideas