Dallas Willard Quotes

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.