S Ideas Quotes

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!

Never invest in ideas, only in people!

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.