Ideas Quotes

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

Ideas are useless unless used.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

It's a good idea not to major in minor things.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.