Ideas Quotes

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.