Stimulating Ideas Quotes

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

I like to make people think.

A good scientist goes beyond the data he has. He applies new concepts he hadn't applied before….On some things, I was not right, but ... you can propose these ideas and stimulate thinking

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

You can't just repeat. It's valueless. So we - we're really keen to challenge ourselves. I suppose a byproduct of that will be challenging our fans a bit as well.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

It was a very creative atmosphere in my family, for sure.

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.

Empowering the creativity of our developers is at the core of everything we do at Roblox.

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.