Ideas Quotes
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?
An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.
Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.
There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.
One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.
We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.