A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.