#ideas

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. ↗

— Theodore Zeldin

#art

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#new-ideas #open-mindedness #originality

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#confluence #creative-process #ideas #writing #writing-process

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#ideas #words #l-m-montgomery

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #coming #crafting #each #excited

Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #imagination

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things. ↗

— Malia Ann Haberman

#chase-tinker #ideas #imagination #magic #thoughts

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ↗

— John Milton

#censorship #ideas #intellect #life

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life