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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.
A lot of people believe a lot of things. People also believe in a lot of ideas or hold tight to a lot of ideologies and beliefs.
I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.
I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.
Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.
[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.
In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.
I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.