thought on Original Ideas

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a l...

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Too often we give real estate to things in our lives that either haven’t earned their land or were never meant to occupy important space in the first place.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embeddin...

A remarkable aspect of your mental life is that you are rarely stumped.

We sow a thought and reap an act; We sow an act and reap a habit; We sow a habit and reap a character; We sow a character and reap a destiny.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

To most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

I began to see a pattern at work in many of us. Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the be...

In the first chapter of her book, Get Out of Your Head , author Jennie Allen shares a vulnerable and honest moment from her own life about just how hard it can be to focus in a world of distraction...

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Many of us tend to be passive with our thoughts and feelings. We treat them like they rule us, like they are in charge of us, and not the other way around. We forget that our thoughts and feelings are...

What Determines Happiness?  Imagine a movie theater full of a hundred people. These hundred individuals represent the full continuum of happiness: Some are exceptionally happy, others less so, and ...

The insight that we can exercise some control over our thoughts and feelings is deep in Christianity.

My thought it is a wanton ranger,  It skips away;  I fear 'twill bring my soul in danger  On Judgment Day...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is...

The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.

You will always find what you are looking for. Think about the difference between two birds: a vulture and a hummingbird. Vultures soar high in the sky, looking and searching. What does a vulture find...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.