Ideas Quotes
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!
An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.
I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.
I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas
Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.