Ideas Quotes
Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.
The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.
If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!
The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.
A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.
She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
I was looking at a bottle of water; they have nutritional facts printed on the side. You know, I'm no chemist, but I have a rough idea what's in water.
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.