Ideas Quotes

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

Ideas come from curiosity.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.