Top 1200 Vague Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like.

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.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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 are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

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.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different 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 believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

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.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

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.

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

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.

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

I wear Doc Martens leather boots, so I'm not a vegan. I am a vague-one.

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!

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.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

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.

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

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

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

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.

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

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

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

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

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

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

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

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.