Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas - Linus Pauling,

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

Society, the media, the brevity of our life and our involvement in our time make us attach undue importance to the events and people notable during our life. But they are all so transient. Only relevant are the birth of ideas and actions which are part of a long

Shared ideas can create a system, which can in turn create verbiage and conformism. Art remains defiantly silent - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times, 29/05/05

Plant one bamboo shoot - cut bamboo for the rest of your life - Chinese proverb

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas - victor Hugo

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money - William J. Cameron

Judging by what I have learned about men and women, I am convinced that far more idealistic aspiration exists than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are much less numerous than the underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released. Mankind is waiting and longing for those who can accomplish the task of untying what is knotted and bringing the underground waters to the surface - Albert Schweitzer

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Decline of Heroes

Ideas are, perhaps, the most ethereal resources at an organisation?s disposal. They fall through the cracks of intellectual property law with worrying ease. They defy classification. No one knows this better than those who work in the great ideas sectors of our age: business schools and consulting firms - Leif Edvinsson, http://www.corporatelongitude.com/