S Ideas Quotes

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.