Ideas Quotes

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Get the big idea and all else follows.

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.