The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference - improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: people sometimes distort ideas and, therefore, fail to reap their benefits.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
The world needs thinkers, leaders, and doers more than ever, so neglecting the minds of half the population means a lost opportunity to benefit from their ideas, contributions, and actions.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.
We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.
My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention.
When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
