Ideas Quotes

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it

The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

Express your ideas with the world

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

That's all an angel is....an idea of God.