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Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Ideas rise in crowds, as Poincaré said. They rise in liquid networks where connection is valued more than protection. So if we want to build environments that generate good ideas—whether those environments are in schools or corporations or governments or our own personal lives—we need to keep that history in mind, and not fall back on the easy assu
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Ideas in my mind seem to be wild, but that's all they are, imprisoned in my mind. Putting them to the test is real wilderness. I need to do that. It is how us humans reach a state of freedom.
Because think about it: If the only thing an idea wants is to be made manifest, then why would that idea deliberately harm you, when you are the one who might be able to bring it forth? (Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other’s help.)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
we had tapped into the creative consciousness. I have always viewed ideas as energy, floating in and out of our minds and in the air around us. Whether or not we choose to harness that energy is what differentiates us.