Ideas Quotes

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

The idea is more important than the object.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

My ideas are all the same but look different.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

No ideas but in things.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.