Top 1200 Expressing Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

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

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

Expressing truth is hard work.

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

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.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

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.

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.

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.

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

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

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.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them??by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

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

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

I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

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.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

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.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

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

Music is about expressing, not impressing.

The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

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.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.