#ideas

If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#ideas #inspiration #inspire #quotes #rights

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#engineering #ideas #design

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#education #ideas #intellectualism #life #philosophy

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#journaling #knowledge #reflection #education

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#healthy #ideas #irrationality #love #love-stories

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dialogue #faith #god #ideas #life-of-pi

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be. ↗

— Thomas Newkirk

#freedom #ideas #freedom

Ideas do not work.. It is YOU who has to do the work.... ↗

— Manoj Arora

#idea #ideas #work #freedom

A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb. You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself. If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent. ↗

— Manoj Arora

#brilliant #grow #idea #ideas #mother

88. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. ↗

— Roman Payne

#burma #creativity #expatriate #expatriot #expats