“Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.” YearsLongIdeasAgeGivenCasesMiddlePeriodsMathematicsAbstractLong AgoNew IdeasMathematicianMiddle AgesGiven UpRenaissance Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.” ThinkingWayLongI CanImportantIdeasReasonSoundSilenceEnvironmentFocusPeriodsQuietSettingSettingsParadoxComposingLong Periods Of TimeSilence Love Author:Tod Machover
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasHardFilmActingHard WorkPeriodsClothesMusic IsArmyDressesCraftsFirst LoveMusic LoveMoscowI Love MusicLove FilmsNapoleonic Author:Ian Astbury
“I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this was actually a thing we used to do together. They were not my friend. I had no idea what I was doing. We all went in the early 2000s. Needless to say, I don't go anymore. If I need a quick fix, I get a spray tan - though it's never a good idea for me with my fair skin.” IfsNeedsIdeasTogetherUsedPeriodsBedMy FriendsFairsSkinsNo IdeaGood IdeasSprayMy BoyfriendQuick FixesTanningTanning Beds Author:Brittany Snow
“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.” PeopleYearsChildrenLongIdeasParentCitiesWrittenOughtPeriodsWorshipYears AgoFilledPropertyAbsurdGatesLong AgoRejectedHomosexualFalse Gods Author:John Shelby Spong
“I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.” WritingMindBookIdeasUseHandsMightFacesWeekSecurityMonthsPeriodsComputerPagesScreensPrintBlankPencilsBlanketNotebookNew BooksBlank Pages Author:Judy Blume
“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.” YearsFirstsTwoIdeasCoursesEasyActingFivePeriodsNormalHotNo IdeaFive YearsUnemploymentUps & Downs Author:David Krumholtz
“The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.” LongIdeasBreakPeriodsTransition Author:Van Morrison
“I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.” MeanIdeasReasonSongHappenedCouplePeriodsMythGypsyOf Context Author:Van Morrison
“As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.” IdeasUseArtistCultureStylePeriods Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I kept saying I want to do an episode that's set in the past, how do we do a period episode of Black Mirror? And simultaneously there was another idea we were thinking about and the two things sort of gelled and became San Junipero.” ThinkingWantTwoIdeasPastBlackPeriodsMirrorsTwo ThingsEpisodes Author:Charlie Brooker
“When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.” YearsTwoIdeasUsedThreeEffortFocusAdviceMaterialsPeriodsTenPercentVery GoodSizeSeekingFollyEnterpriseJustifyEggsThree YearsExpectingNew IdeasRevenueParallelsImperativesBasketsGood AdvicePortfoliosTippingTipping PointEggs In One BasketFledglings Author:Geoffrey Moore
“The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.” IfsNeedsWritingTryingIdeasCharacterFilmStuffWaitingSupportStruggleCreationPeriodsPagesSellsNotionScriptsExcitedBlankGet RealBad IdeasBlank PagesTime PeriodsBad Stuff Author:Whit Stillman
“After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsIdeasValuesSecretStudyClearSecurityPeriodsSolutionsProgramClaimsOriginalsTerroristTargetPakistanIf You BelieveCiaDronesOriginal IdeasStanfordNyu Author:Robert Greenwald
“People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?” PeopleKnowsKindMeanDoeIdeasMovingCertainValuesPerfectNumbersStudyFiguresHumilityBalancePeriodsJudgmentOkayBotherChairsOptimumPerfect BalanceStravinsky Author:Charles Koch