Ideas Quotes

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Absorb ideas from every source.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.