S Ideas Quotes

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.