Idea That People Quotes

#1. Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths

Orson Scott Card

#2. I dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

Charles Bukowski

#3. I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.

Mike McCue

#4. I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.

Morgan Matson

#5. I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Natasha Tsakos

#6. I don't understand the idea that people shouldn't care about each other just because they're strangers. I think that kind of mindset is responsible for most of the world's problems.

Rose Christo

#7. There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.

Astra Taylor

#8. I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

Paul McCartney

#9. I'm still getting used to the idea that people out in the world are reading my books. Every time I get a 'fan letter,' I am thrilled. But when people tell me that they're from the south or western Kentucky, and they say, 'I know exactly what you mean!' That's awesome.

Molly Harper

#10. The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

Judith Martin

#11. Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

#12. The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time.

Lorrie Moore

#13. There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

Rick Perry

#14. There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

David Spade

#15. That's how we both got committed to this enormous delusion - because that's what it is, an enormous, obscene delusion - this idea that people have to resign from real life and 'settle down' when they have families.

Richard Yates

#16. I loathe that phrase." "Seriously?" Andrew asked, with a smile. "The idea that people fall in love," I said. "It sounds so sloppy. You just fell? Really?

Audrey Bell

#17. It's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I'm not sure if I can fathom that.

Gus Van Sant

#18. This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Fran Lebowitz

#19. The generosity, to me it's less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Taya Kyle

#20. When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

Lilly Singh

#21. The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.

Tiphanie Yanique

#22. I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

Anita Hill

#23. I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

Willa Ford

#24. I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them.

Amy Bloom

#25. I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Jean Genet

#26. I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

Robert Six

#27. To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.

John F. Nash

#28. I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

Diane Kruger

#29. I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

Kevin Spacey

#30. God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Richard Dawkins

#31. Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Thayer David

#32. Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

Philip K. Howard

#33. I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

Todd Solondz

#34. I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

George Osborne

#35. A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate.
She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?

Ron Suskind

#36. I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

Bernard Beckett

#37. The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andrew O'Hagan

#38. Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

Jonathan Cainer

#39. There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

Eli Pariser

#40. I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.

Edmund Phelps

#41. People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#42. What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

Todd Solondz

#43. You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Russell Brand

#44. I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

Glenn McQuaid

#45. It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

Daniel Quinn

#46. The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.

Edward E. Baptist

#47. We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Olivier Theyskens

#48. Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

Chrissie Hynde

#49. I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

Victoria Wood

#50. I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Frank Zappa

#51. The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

Rush Limbaugh

#52. And Bobby was working on a new theory of personal deportment; he didn't quite have the whole thing yet, but part of it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous.

William Gibson

#53. I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Brian Eno

#54. I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

Misha Collins

#55. I had no idea that people thought Jews had horns. Where I came from, Jews had good grades and BMWs.

Sloane Crosley

#56. The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

David Perlmutter

#57. I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

Kim Shaw

#58. I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

Bubba Watson

#59. You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

Anna Faris

#60. I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Orlean

#61. Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.

Nick Mason

#62. My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity ... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Zadie Smith

#63. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."

Madonna Ciccone

#64. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Neilan

#65. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

Alexandra Fuller

#66. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#67. Locals? I hit print on the shock file, and my face was the paper that came out of the printer! Locals! I had no idea this deep into the green inferno there'd be people living! Or dying!

Mark Gunk

#68. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

Dave Winfield

#69. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#70. Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea - that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.

Ed Catmull

#71. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman

#72. When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

Reid Hoffman

#73. When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only just help him with that. I cannot change his idea.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#74. I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

Milo Ventimiglia

#75. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

#76. I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris

#77. That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.

Richard Carrier

#78. The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

Stephen Daldry

#79. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.

Stephen Chbosky

#80. There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

Jim Gaffigan

#81. Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

Laura Klein

#82. Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go.

Utah Phillips

#83. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Elana Dykewomon

#84. A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

#85. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

Hippocrates

#86. I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

Anne Wojcicki

#87. I knew that every time I saw a person on the street, I saw only his public shadow. The rest, the important part, lies in layer after layer beyond our view.
We have no idea what wonders lie hidden in the people around us.

Anne Nelson

#88. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.

Brian Ulrich

#89. It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Brian Eno

#90. The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.

Mira Grant

#91. I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

Mary Gordon

#92. There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

Zack De La Rocha

#93. The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

Ken Livingstone

#94. Henceforth, people became obsessed with the idea that machines and engines could be used to convert one type of energy into another.

Yuval Noah Harari

#95. I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.

Liev Schreiber

#96. In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

Kenneth Fisher

#97. Most people don't fall in love, they just love the idea that they have fallen in love.

Shon Mehta

#98. Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Seth Shostak

#99. I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.

Sonya Walger

#100. The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

Brie Larson