Top 1200 Old Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.

If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.

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

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

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.

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.

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!

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

I think leaders lead themselves, but leaders have ideas and maybe they're visionary ideas. Probably today, people would say Steve Jobs was a visionary because he invented this little gadget, the cell phone. But he didn't invent cell phones, and he didn't design the cell phone. He just took a couple of ideas and put them together, and no one else put those same ideas together as successfully as he did. But he had something that he was trying to do that intrigued him, and he could do it very well.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

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

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

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

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

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

It's very easy to overproduce stuff and you can forget those first spontaneous ideas are often the best ideas.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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

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.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

I think my shows can draw an audience of 12 million because I ask, 'What can make a 7-year-old, a 17-year-old, a 30-year-old and a 77-year-old laugh?'

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.

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.

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.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

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

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

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

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

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