Ideas Quotes
This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do.
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.
That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.
When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.
The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say "star struck" as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.
I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
