Ideas Quotes

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

The light, colors, and energy of Ibiza are constant sources of inspirations for my work. I always leave Ibiza recharged and full of ideas for new shades, looks, and products.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?

When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.