Top 1200 Radical Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

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.

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!

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.

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

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - ?when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

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.

In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

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 keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

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

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

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

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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