#ideas

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #get #holding #holding on #ideas

The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth . . . Instinctively realizing the connection between the foreigner's presence, the roundness of the earth, and future changes and upheavals, he finally announces, "Yes, the earth is round, the women will start to think, and as soon as they begin to think, they will become shameless. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#change

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [Life magazine, December 10, 1965] ↗

— Rex Stout

#ideas #nature #reading #thought #life

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #communication #controversy #disapproval #emotions

One day, you will stop and think of something. Now it different for everyone but it will change your life forever because you will think of an idea. an idea that will go toe and toe with your dreams. When you think of this Idea, grab it and hold on to it ↗

— Unknown

#ideas-are-power #change

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#movies

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#ideas #change

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#flexibility #ideas #change

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#ideas #inspirational #death