All Quotes By Tag: Ideas

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

“Ideas come from everything”

“If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right…it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!”

“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”

“Decisions should be based on a pragmatic approach to find a solution rather than on emotional feelings.”

“Loyalty and honesty are the most important yet often ignored qualities in business. Long term success depends on these qualities.”

“Infinity is experienced in ideas. Make the ideas of your life worth travelling the infinity.”

“What drives winning? Attitude? Vision? Persistence? Hard work? Discipline? Or is it a combination of above and more.”

“Happiness of employees is important for the health of any business.”

“Persistence to achieve a dream is as important as dreaming to achieve.”

“The ultimate goal is the goal to succeed.”

“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I’m really never sure of what I really believe.”