Ideas Quotes

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.