Idealist Musings Gifts

Paul Ree

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

' A good idea '

Bright idea

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

Boom

A balloon seller is selling thought bubble balloons

'Half an optimist is an odd bird, Sarah.'

Elevator Pitch

USA Hangs the Dove of Peace

Citizen of the world.

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

Patents office.

'If we can't come up with better ideas, at least we should have better excuses.'

'Marx and Engels - why they split.'

"Actually, I worked my way up from ideas and you can too!"

'Idealist'

New Idea

American Venn diagram

"I'm sorry-you tapped into something no one cares about."

Eureka

'The tests indicate you've been exposed to a new idea.'

On John Lennon: 'WE may say he's a dreamer,...but he's not the only one.'

Turning off the thinking lightbulb at home time.

'Come in please, I have something I'd like to bounce off you!'

"If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid."

'The good news is that all the teachers liked the weekend brainstorming retreat. The bad news is that twelve of them are out today with splitting headaches.'

"...I thought I was too smart, too idealistic to end up this way, but LOOK at me! I've become an entrenched bureaucrat!"

An inspiration of inventors - "Eureka!"

People Liked Running Things Past Michael

"Embrace the idea, Stevens, not the ideator."

'Very cool. What else can it do?'

Creative Director skipping through an advertising portfolio.

The evolution of an idea.