S Ideas Quotes

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

I must admit that we have yet to understand how [Donald Trump] will develop his idea, his pledge to make America great again, but I hope this will not hinder the development of our cooperation.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.

We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.