Unconstrained Ideas Quotes

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Advocacy and belief go hand in hand. For there can be no true freedom of mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

We can't stop people from thinking what they want to.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea, when it is held by a man who has only one.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.