Ideas Quotes

I saw her backstage and said hi, took a picture with her. Tried to get a convo going, but the kid had know idea wut to think!

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's just [an] idea that because I'm black I just look a certain way.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.