Top 1200 Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Ideas control the world.

Great ideas are not charitable.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Ideas... they have the power

Do not covet your ideas.

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Ideas come from everything

Ideas come from curiosity.

I take my ideas from my experiences.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Ideas are the root of creation.

I always got ideas.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

The hero is the one with ideas.

The reason you go to university is to be taught, is to learn how to think more clearly, to call into question the ideas that you came with and think about whether or not they are the ideas you will always want to hold. A university education at its best is a time of confusion and questioning, a time to learn how to think clearly about the values and principles that guide one's life. Of course, it's also a time to acquire the skills needed for jobs in the "real world," but the part about becoming an adult with ideals and integrity is also important.

Usually my ideas are small.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people.

We are taught words, not ideas.

My ideas are threatening to the government.

I admire American ideas.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Ideas are the currency of the future.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

I like audacious ideas.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Exchange ideas frequently.

ideas are dangerous commodities.

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Ideas have consequences.

My novels are all ideas.

Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much of ideas, but words mattered, and so on. But both of them had a sense that this is a world of infinite discovery, unending discovery. That quest to discover more in any direction is what I think drives me, and what drives humans, when they're doing the most interesting things.

All great ideas are dangerous.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

Ideas are the source of all things

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Ideas that spread win.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

The ideas dictate everything.

Ideas do not need weapons.

Ideas are bulletproof.

Successful ideas, they snowball.

Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.