Ideas Quotes

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

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.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.