S Ideas Quotes

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an ice lake, so I'd like to come stay.

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.

When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.