Top 1200 Vague Ideas Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I jot down ideas.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

One of the big mistakes of the Moroccan elite and the elite in the Muslim world was to be afraid of the conservatives. They are fighting for their ideas. Why shouldn't we fight for our ideas?

The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Someone with my name and my appearance comes with preconceived ideas attached. My mission is to erase as many preconceived ideas, barriers, and stereotypes as I can.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Ideas are not - ideas come at me all the time; it's just the way I'm wired. It's just a matter of focusing it in and figuring out what to do with that.

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.