Ideas Quotes

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Act with integrity. Live up to your idea of who you are.

I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.