The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.
Interpretation
Great ideas provoke strong, conflicting emotions and thoughts.
This quote by Reid Hoffman suggests that the most powerful ideas challenge our perceptions and evoke a mix of attraction and resistance. When an idea is truly impactful, it generates enthusiasm and skepticism simultaneously, prompting deeper reflection and discussion.
In practice
In a brainstorming session where diverse opinions are encouraged.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
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