Ideas Quotes

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Without action, the world would still be an idea.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind?

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.