Ideas Quotes

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

Respect People, Inspect Ideas.

I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in which I offer to eat and describe pork to kosher people.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.