Ideas Quotes

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all.

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I want God, not my idea of God.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.