Top 100 Quotes About Ideas
#1. The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.
Steve Cosson
#2. Warmakers are often wrong ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
David Cortright
#3. When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke.
Drake
#4. Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential.
Ed Catmull
#5. If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Akio Morita
#6. A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.
Jenny Holzer
#8. Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...
Mykyta Isagulov
#9. testing out models, and then refining everything further, I developed a set of ideas that was transforming people's ability
David Rock
#10. Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...
Irvin D. Yalom
#11. We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#12. Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.
Margarita Engle
#13. All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
John Dewey
#14. Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
Garry Trudeau
#15. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
Erik Johansson
#16. [H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
Jonathan Franzen
#17. The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It's like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more than you can handle, you get stronger. In life, when the gun is to your head, you either figure it out, or you die.
Claudia Azula Altucher
#18. Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don't get spoken always fail.
Seth Godin
#19. For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.
Shawn Lukas
#20. Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#21. It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God!
Patricia Crone
#22. It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda
#25. I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.
Peter Greenaway
#26. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
Elizabeth Atkinson
#27. If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
Allan Savory
#28. All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.
Johann Hari
#29. It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come ... it's painful waiting for them.
Oscar Wilde
#30. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.
Christine M. Johns
#31. Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Alexander Pushkin
#32. I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.
Ben Huh
#33. His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Victor Hugo
#34. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.
Don Cupitt
#35. Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.
John Berger
#36. Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.
Rush Limbaugh
#37. I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.
Steve Jobs
#38. You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas, would you?
Joe K.
#39. New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based
Shane Snow
#40. Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
Peter Brook
#41. She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.
Carolina De Robertis
#42. People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
Seth Godin
#43. I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
Dave Brat
#44. Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
Holly Estil Cunningham
#45. Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ...
Honore De Balzac
#46. Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling
#47. I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
Ai Weiwei
#48. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
Esme Raji Codell
#49. Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
Philip Zimbardo
#50. I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.
Jane Campion
#51. You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
Gary Hamel
#52. At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
Brad D. Smith
#53. The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.
Travis Luedke
#54. I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
Kate Atkinson
#55. I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
Charles Stross
#56. The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.
Adam Phillips
#57. So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
Dave Eggers
#58. Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#59. To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.
Sanford Meisner
#60. If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas
Hubie Brown
#61. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#62. Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
Jill Lepore
#63. It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.
Harvey MacKay
#64. But just as exposure research would suggest, the brief presentations interspersed between other communications - and the delays between them - caused leaders to warm up to Medina's ideas.
Adam M. Grant
#65. Monstrous, unnatural, colossal, was the thing - too far beyond all the ideas of man to be believed except in the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep.
H.P. Lovecraft
#66. The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#67. Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#68. I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.
Bauvard
#69. Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.
Michael Gungor
#70. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#71. Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
Jim Rohn
#72. Even in ordinary conversation, the ideas connected with the word Logic include at least precision of language, and accuracy of classification: and we perhaps oftener hear persons speak of a logical arrangement, or of expressions logically defined, than of conclusions logically deduced from premises.
John Stuart Mill
#73. Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra
#74. While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.
Jonathan Haidt
#75. I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
#76. It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda
#77. For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
Plato
#79. You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Claude M. Bristol
#80. I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.
Neil Peart
#81. Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Watts Humphrey
#82. Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.
Alexandra Katehakis
#83. In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.
Frederick Lenz
#84. At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
Ian Rankin
#85. But this is war. We don't have the luxury of good ideas - only picking between the bad ones.
Sarah J. Maas
#86. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#87. It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.
Charlie Munger
#88. 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.
Richard P. Feynman
#89. we're all in the business of selling ideas to the masses, and we all think our ideas are the ones to save the world,
Oliver Bowden
#91. To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#92. You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.
Dan Heath
#93. If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
Charlie Munger
#94. I'm not surprise to hear this from you. People love to express their thought and ideas. They preach everyone to believe and follow their seemingly good ideology and thought but they themselves don't practice their own preach." - Arluna
Rin Ahmad
#95. Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
Felix Dennis
#97. Fortunately, working with Universal was just a real opportunity of a supportive entity, who not only financially backed and distributed the movie, but creatively collaborated with us, and gave us ideas and creative ways to make a movie that was budgetarily responsible.
David Gordon Green
#98. The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
H.L. Mencken
#99. You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#100. The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.
Swami Vivekananda
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