Ideas Quotes

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.

I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

New ideas often need old buildings.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.