#ideas

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ↗

— Paul Valery

#ideas #never #people #serious #serious-minded

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ↗

— Eugene Field

#came #explosive #extreme #human #human thought

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#above #angry #big #challenge #diminish

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#excellent #fan #i #ideas #many

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#business #capital #experience #get #ideas

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#basic #changes #chord #come #coming

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#comes #delivery #famous #history #ideas

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#defined #environments #every #every day #ideas

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #deeds #desires #follow #ideas

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

#also #civic #each #exerts #formation