Ideas Quotes

By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

I can’t remem­ber who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good peo­ple aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!