Ideas Quotes

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment.

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

I'm always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.