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In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.
Erich Hoeber
Time
Great
Our
Great Ideas
Write
Had
Ideas
Around
Office
Get
Want
Things
The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
Erik Hersman
Great
Innovation
Problems
Invention
Resources
Marks
Great Ideas
Solving
Emergence
Constrained
Point
Come
Ideas
Real
Real Problems
African
Anywhere
Product
Company
Shows
Tech
Hardware
There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.
Erik Larson
Wish
Secret
No Secret
Ideas
Were
Orchard
Oh
Where
Grow
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
Erik Larson
Book
Finish
Blank
Blank Slate
Never
Ideas
Lined
Up
Whenever
Start
Slate
For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.'
Erik Larson
Become
Thinking
Guess
About
Something
Could
Wireless
Days
Ideas
Know
Discarded
Because
Does
Person
Did
Any
Maybe
Afternoon
Then
Origin
Why
Dozen
At first glance, the story of the Lusitania doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would take on. I usually like ideas that are a little bit more complex, things that people don't know about - or maybe they once did, but now you bring it to life for them for the first time.
Erik Larson
Life
Time
You
People
First
Once
Bit
Complex
Would
About
Seem
More
Take
Glance
Like
Ideas
Know
Sort
First Time
Did
Maybe
Story
Little
Little Bit
Them
Now
Thing
Things
Bring
I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.
Erik Larson
Book
World
Better
Thought
Looking
Reading
Nothing
Once
Background
Hooked
About
Had
Remembered
Idea
Fair
Ideas
Read
Sort
Got
Antsy
Getting
Where
Again
Holmes
Dismissed
Specifically
Dozen
Thing
Started
Started Reading
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness.
Erik Larson
World
Events
Awareness
Books
Once
Hunting
About
Faded
Attention
Ideas
Look
Contemporary
Another
Stories
Reason
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Erin Morgenstern
Me
Writing
Sometimes
Become
Action
Nice
Painting
Physical
More
Writer
Like
Ideas
Brain
Up
Get
Hobby
Your
Helpful
Serious
Now
Career
Ideas are the root of creation.
Ernest Dimnet
Creation
Ideas
Root
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
Good
People
Fear
Country
Reflect
Down
Think
Damn
Once
Some
Perhaps
Ideas
Issues
Years
Years Ago
Died
Done
Going
Stop
Movie
Hole
Again
Rabbit
Vietnam
Forty
Forty Years
Here
Millions
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
Ester Dean
Music
Me
People
Tell
See
Write
Writer
Songs
Ideas
Always
Difference
Story
Spark
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
Ethan Canin
Life
Myself
Dog
Rest
My Life
Down
Bite
Out
Able
Clean
Write
Cabin
Tension
Between
Ideas
Also
Practical
Always
Been
Up
Romantic
Hole
Need
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Work
Genius
Enough
Those
Inspires
Idea
Obsession
New
Ideas
Said
New Ideas
Still
Been
Moves
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
Eugene Field
Thought
Other
Birth
Monstrous
Extreme
Immediacy
Pendulum
Instant
Like
Ideas
Came
Human
Explosive
Swinging
Human Thought
Keeps
It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people.
Evan Osnos
You
People
Worth
Somebody
White
Think
Other
Spencer
Those
Members
Clear
Like
Ideas
Know
Most
Endorse
Nationalist
Being
Richard
Really
Groups
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
Evan Osnos
Government
You
Book
Censorship
Considered
Bookstore
Those
Critical
Charge
Onto
Ideas
Also
Course
Sure
Making
Shelves
Overly
Subject
Get
Going
China
Then
Means
Apparatus
Published
Publisher
Disruptive
Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
Evan Osnos
Made
Power
Master
Born
Classics
Ideas
Him
Idiosyncrasies
Kong
His
Which
Chinese
Confucius
Means
I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.
Ezra Miller
Work
Old
Thought
Reading
Television
Television Shows
Out
Bad
Weird
Ideas
Know
Read
Years
Lot
Lack
Bursting
Scripts
Work Out
Then
Noticing
Full
Shows
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
Fabiola Gianotti
Art
Time
Harmony
Some
Inventive
Physicists
Proportion
Clear
Like
Ideas
Principles
Mathematical
Very
Same
Same Time
Fantasy
Based
Need
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira
Today
Time
You
Take For Granted
Fly
Invention
Before
Other
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Machines
Would
Take
Allow
Combustion
Ideas
His
Years
Person
Trying
Being
Average
Leonardo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Average Person
Engine
Granted
Electricity
Internal
Many
Describe
Things
Humans
Imagine
We gotta bring new ideas to the table and empower each other.
Fantastic Negrito
Other
Table
New
Ideas
Empower
New Ideas
Gotta
Each
Bring
Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.
Farhan Akhtar
Cinema
Medium
Way
Powerful
Mass
Ideas
Felt
Always
Very
Translate
Engaging
I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.
Farhan Akhtar
Saying
People
World
Old
Rare
Young
Radical
Think
Over
New
Come
Ideas
New Ideas
Happen
Young People
Old People
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Differences
System
Combined
Ideas
Sound
Linguistic
Series
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
Fidel Castro
Time
Will
Others
Remain
Soon
Come
Like
Ideas
Cuban
Us
Communists
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