S Ideas Quotes

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.