Top 1200 Great Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

Wouldn't it be great, if there was a one-stop shop where funny people could take their ideas and have them made?

Think about how many great works of art or game-changing ideas were ahead of their time - their creator's talent underappreciated until many years later. That's how we need to treat our young people - because who knows where the next great idea will come from?

I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.

Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't have whatever that is, that craziness, that openness, maybe, I don't think I'd be able to do what I really love to do, which is write great melodies and at least try to write great melodies.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay mind, for people who have no idea about what's going on in quantum physics. They are meant to get big ideas across in the simplest way so young people can start to wrestle with these ideas.

I'm biased, but I see people who have great ideas and are working on things that could be successful, but they give up.

...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it's not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.

Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.