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. That is way great spiritual giants are produced - Swami Vivekananda
Reading criticism clogs conduits through which one gets new ideas: cultural cholesterol. - luminaries on criticism http://j.mp/YZFPlC
One can continue fooling the public with slick ahistorical jeremiads on geopolitics by serving them with the coarse but tasty sauce that is the Cyber-Whig theory of history. The recipe is simple. Find some peculiar global trend—the more arcane, the better. Draw a straight line connecting it to the world of apps, electric cars, and Bay Area venture capital. Mention robots, Japan, and cyberwar. Use shiny slides that contain incomprehensible but impressive maps and visualizations. Stir well. Serve on multiple platforms - Evgeny PMorozov, http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and…
Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels - AC Grayling
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones - John Cage
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones - John Cage
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation and never returns to its former dimensions - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward: they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game - Goethe
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood - H.L. Mencken