After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
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