Top 1200 Old Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

I have specific plans. I have a lot of ideas, desi ideas, which I want to implement in coaching.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

I listen to everyone but I have my ideas... you know my ideas, my way of playing, and if I have to die by them I will.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.