Top 1200 Good Idea Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

You're really not that good a mechanic, Edward. Maybe you should have Rosalie take a look at it tonight, just so you look good if Mike decides to let you help, you know. Not that it wouldn't be fun to watch his face if Rosalie showed up to help. But since Rosalie is supposed to be across the country attending college, I guess that's not the best idea. Too bad.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I always had an idea of how Five should be and it was very funny to entertain that idea when I got an audition for it.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

People don't understand this: Ideas are important, but they're not essential. What's essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a movie and saying, "Hey! That was my idea!" Well, it doesn't mean anything that you had that idea. There's no such thing as an original concept. What's original is the way you re-use ancient concepts.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things. The idea that there's an obligation to have that thing happen in four years or five years or six years, I think we need to disavow that.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.