Top 1200 Vague Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

Ideas can be killed only by other ideas!

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

Big ideas start as weird ideas.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas.

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

I was struck by the ideas of Sarri, when you see them from outside you get a certain idea but when you are inside you understand the intelligence of a coach who has brought new ideas.

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.