Top 1200 Dangerous Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

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

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

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?

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

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

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

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

Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

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.

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone is saying that I'm retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don't want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

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

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

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

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