S Ideas Quotes

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.

Do not covet your ideas.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.