Ideas Quotes

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

In art one idea is as good as another.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.