Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenio….

In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid num….

The more you reason the less you create..

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what i….

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial….

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions..

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bou….

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas..

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, so….

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world….

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obl….

Ever see this? It's a homeless guy but he's got a dog... The dog's really thrilled with this idea. The dog's going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself ….

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential..

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people wh….

To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its….

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas….

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is i….

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their ….

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it becaus….

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish….

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on..