Ideas Quotes

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts.

The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.