S Ideas Quotes

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.