Ideas Quotes

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me off.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.

You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.