Ideas Quotes

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

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

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

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

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

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

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.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

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.

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.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

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.

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.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

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.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.