S Ideas Quotes

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

Big ideas start as weird ideas.

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.