Top 1200 Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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!

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

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

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.

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

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

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

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

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.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

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.

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.

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

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

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

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

We want to challenge the established ideas with new 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.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

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

An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with the ideas of others.

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

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.