Ideas Quotes

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.

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

I just really like to find my own ideas.

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.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

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

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".

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

Ideas are bulletproof.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."