Top 1200 Vague Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with the ideas of others.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two, hopefully, and there are a lot of people there that can do things well, but they might not be devoid of good ideas or maybe they're not especially interesting ideas, or maybe there's a good idea that a person is unable to execute in the manner that does justice to the idea.

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.