Ideas Quotes

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.