Ideas Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.