S Ideas Quotes

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.

It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.

Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

I feel like whole idea with makeup is that I don't want anyone to think, 'Oh she's wearing makeup.' I just want them to think, 'Oh she looks good!'

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!