Ideas Quotes

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.