Ideas Quotes

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

The best idea is the simplest.

I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.