S Ideas Quotes

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

There is a right physical size for every idea.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

If Donald Trump were to win this 2017 election, we would have a commander in chief who is completely out of his depth and whose ideas are incredibly dangerous.

What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

Any idea's a great idea as long as it tastes great.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.