Top 1200 No Idea Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

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

What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

I didn't have any idea what politics was like. I was surprised at how difficult it is to get something done. In the private world, if I have an idea, I just do it.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

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.'

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.

Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that 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 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."

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.

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.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we're establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.

I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

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

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

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I'd say, 90 percent of the time, I get an idea, like, within 10 seconds of somebody telling me what their whole thing is about. And usually that flash of an idea, it's what I always go with. It might change slightly, but in general, that's pretty much it. To get me to change the entire idea is pretty tough.

There's this idea that when you say you're Muslim, that you're either all in or you're trying to escape it. I love the idea of gradations and levels, just like everybody else has.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

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

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.