Ideas Quotes
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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.
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.
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.
If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.
Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.