Ideas Quotes
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won’t feel like work. It’s okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.
The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.