Ideas Quotes

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

Ideas are not important in China – execution is

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.

I don't capture moments, I capture ideas.

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

If it works, it's obsolete.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.