Ideas Quotes
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.
I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.
It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'
I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.