Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Jose Marti

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
Jeffrey Sachs

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald R. Ford

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.
Saadi

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
bell hooks

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
Bruce Springsteen

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer Adler

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Gottfried Leibniz

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Gottfried Leibniz

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
Margaret J. Wheatley

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
Martha Stewart

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames