Top 1200 Conflicting Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I think leaders lead themselves, but leaders have ideas and maybe they're visionary ideas. Probably today, people would say Steve Jobs was a visionary because he invented this little gadget, the cell phone. But he didn't invent cell phones, and he didn't design the cell phone. He just took a couple of ideas and put them together, and no one else put those same ideas together as successfully as he did. But he had something that he was trying to do that intrigued him, and he could do it very well.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Pick a co-founder that communicates in the same fashion that you do. If you are a screamer, then the only way you will ever listen to a conflicting point of view is to find someone who is passionate enough to yell back at you.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

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.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures acting upon on your state budget is a recipe for disaster.

And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have 20 ideas that you like.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

It's very easy to overproduce stuff and you can forget those first spontaneous ideas are often the best ideas.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.

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

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.