S Ideas Quotes

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You’ll get great ideas to use in your marketing.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective