"blue sky" thinking or whatever

what does this mean when people say this

'I haven't got any ideas yet'

so this is a lily allen thread then

"The mind includes everything; when you think something comes from outside it means only that something appears in your ind. Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it wil become calm. This mind is called big mind.

If your mind is related to something outside itself, that mind is a small mind, a limited mind. If our mind is not related to anything else, then there is no dualistic understanding in the activity of the mind. You understand activity as just waves of your mind. Big mind experiences everything within itself. Do you understand the difference between the two minds: the mind which includes everything, and the mind which is related to something? Actually the are the same thing, but the understanding is different, and your attitude towards your life will be different according to which understanding you have."

shunryu suzuki, zen mind, beginner's mind

i heard this term for the first time last week and would v much like to know what it means also

it means thinking about stuff, where the sky is the limit.

basically mean wasting time having your head up in the clouds

"What if... there were no rules?"

"What if... you could be whoever you wanted to be?"

"What if... all boundaries... were erased?"

"LYSOL DOUCHE"

heard this on the heston blumenthal/little chef show the other week and it reminded me of the kind of retarded management/marketing speak i used to hear on a daily basis from dinosaurs form the 80s in my old job. its pretty much a big brainstorm where you can hammer out any old idea. In reality it tends to mean 'we've listened to all the ideas/concepts/designs you've presented and we would rather you sacked them all off and do something completely different'

On that Heston thing, it was more "hmm, dont ask me!"

Isn't it more like thinking in the style of ELO?

That's Mr Blue Sky Thinking.

Where Mr Little Chef has to find out why Heston Blumenethal had to hide way for so long.

It's that or a BIG IDEAS SHOWER!

God I need drugs.

blueski thinking

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/John%20Lee%20Hooker.jpg

^^^ Some blues guy thinking

http://www.balladtree.com/graphics/albumcovers/joni_blue.gif

depressing as fuck

My Old Man is the bomb

He wears a bomb hat

suggest bomb

Isn't it more like thinking in the style of ELO?

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That's Mr Blue Sky Thinking.

Blue skies will forever be associated with the bell like guitar chords from the Delgados cover of Mr Blue Sky.

> i heard this term for the first time last week

The (UK) Apprentice went to some design office or other for one of their tasks several series ago and the design office had a meeting room with clouds painted on the ceiling to encourage blue sky thinking.

didn't they actually do that with the new Little Chefs too (is that also why Heston was mentioned upthread?)

i don't watch cookery programs on tv - am vegetarian and thus not interested in food. 8)

i'm sure they provide a vegetarian option as a result of the bluesky imagineering

Blue sky veggie pasta bake

It's much better to have your heads in the clouds. Blue sky thinking = the mantra of soulless business types. Ya know, idea factories, brain storms. Blue sky thinking got us into the mess we're in.

That meaning strikes me as so weird and indirect -- I would have said with total confidence that "blue sky" thinking must indicate an extreme level of optimism. Y'know, as in "Blue Skies, smiling at me / Nothing but blue skies do I see."

ok thanks dudes

i was really drunk when i started this and i have no idea why i did

the hope for something better?