Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
— Max McKeownAn idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.
— Nathan McCallDiscovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, I.E. With the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected.
— Thomas KuhnConvictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
— Adam GrantMan’s mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen.
— Israelmore AyivorHey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
— Spider RobinsonI get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.
— BauvardFor the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers’ conceptual structure together.
— Kilroy J. OldsterFor the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers’ conceptual structure together.
— Kilroy J. OldsterI find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
— Seth Godin