Ideas Quotes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services

I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.