S Ideas Quotes

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

A fervently believed idea, even if wrong, dies hard.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

Ideas without action are useless.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.