Ideas Quotes
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?
The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.
The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.
Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.