Ideas Quotes

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Ideas come from everything

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

The simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

New ideas must use old buildings

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.