Ideas Quotes

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

The more you reason the less you create.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.