S Ideas Quotes

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

A great idea is not enough.

I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.

When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

An idea is a feat of association.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.