Top 1200 No Idea Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

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

You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.

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

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.

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.

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.

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

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

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.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

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.

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

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.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.

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.

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

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

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