Subject: Intelligence » Ideas (Page 2)

Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Communication Ideas Intelligence Language Murphy’s Laws

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Ideas Intelligence Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

(1900 – 1973) computer pioneer
Ideas Intelligence

He objected to ideas only when others had them.

(1906 – 1990) British historian
Ideas Insults Intelligence

Education: Forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.

Definitions Ideas Intelligence

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist
Ideas Sex Situations

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

(1924 – 2013) American businessman, author & columnist
Ideas Intelligence

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Family Ideas Intelligence Mothers Situations

Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Communication Education Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Animals Dogs Ideas Intelligence

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.


Communication Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Ideas Intelligence

Who’s cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Ideas Intelligence Language

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

(1917 –1986) American journalist
Ideas Intelligence

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss; the wiser the man, the longer the list.

(1741 – 1794) French writer
Communication Ideas

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Ideas

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

(1908 – 1990) English actor
Ideas Intelligence

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist
Appearance Clothing Ideas Intelligence

It sounds good on paper.

Ideas Intelligence Mixed metaphors