Ideas Quotes

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

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'.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

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

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

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

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

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.

Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.