Top 1200 Good Idea Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being super good at one tiny thing, to be kind of average at lots of things. It might mean that you have a more kind of enjoyable, complete life.

I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame a good public name is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

Well, this is shortly after the idea was put to me because it wasn't my idea to do a Christmas record. We can talk about that a little bit, if you like, later on. But I wrote that song actually about two days after the idea was put to me.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes.

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

I love Thanksgiving. I truly do. Every last thing about it is wonderful. I love getting together with family and friends. I love the meal. I love the football. I love the four-day weekend without having anything that particularly has to get done. And of course, I love the fundamental idea behind it-giving thanks for all the good people and good things in your life.

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

I happen to like regionalism, whatever that means. I like the idea of art that somehow specifically reflects some aspect of a community or culture from which was created, the idea of uniform art sounds dreadfully boring and almost fascistic in its implication. So in that sense, I really celebrate the idea of a place that allows for a range of ideas and certainly L.A. does that.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

Today, if the CEO thinks it's a good idea, it's done everywhere; if the CEO thinks it's a bad idea, it's done nowhere. We ought to be more agnostic and open to learning things that we didn't expect - and the only way to do that is to try things and be open-minded about how well they are working. And third, evidence-based management involves reading and learning - just like doctors do - and to do so not just in school but afterward, as well.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

I never liked the idea of the 'Royal Family' film. I always thought it was a rotten idea.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.