Ideas Quotes

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.