Ideas Quotes

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

An idea that is confident always looks masculine.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Chance favors the connected mind.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.

The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.