S Ideas Quotes

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Since the universe is infinite, that inspires me with endless ideas.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.