Your Ideas Quotes

#1. Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them.

Austin Kleon

#2. The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

Neil Gaiman

#3. I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

Gerard Way

#4. Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.

Ian Hogarth

#5. Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

Keith Carter

#6. Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

Walter Darby Bannard

#7. If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#8. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven

Vishen Lakhiani

#9. If you want to defeat a country, defeat it with your ideas! If you want to defeat your enemies, defeat them with your ideas! Let your only sword and gun be your sharp and powerful ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

Pedro A. Perez Raymond

#11. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

#12. Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Benny Bellamacina

#13. The only way to be sure is to go out and test your ideas and programmes, and to realise that you will often be wrong. But that is not a bad thing. It leads to progress. This

Matthew Syed

#14. Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Margaret Mahy

#15. Be daring to push your ideas forward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Regardless of how crazy your idea may seem, always believe in yourself and your ideas.

Ross Cameron

#17. In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. 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.

Alan Lightman

#19. Do not let your ideas on limits limit your ideas.

K.S. Turner

#20. When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Richard Branson

#21. If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

Trevor Nunn

#22. It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

Tucker Carlson

#23. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

#24. Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Mel Brooks

#25. When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.

Sophia Loren

#26. Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Stephanie Kwolek

#28. As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Susan Neiman

#29. 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.

Li Cunxin

#30. Express your ideas with the world

Mitchel Resnick

#31. Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

Ze Frank

#32. You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

Michael Steinhardt

#34. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

Rex Smith

#35. Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.

John Haggai

#36. Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#37. Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose - to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.

David Filo

#38. Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,

Biz Stone

#39. You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

Harvey MacKay

#40. learned early on the motto "Know thyself." I think if you have a unique point of view and stay relevant and authentic, you will make an impression. You have to be excited and passionate about your ideas to make them work.

Sophia Amoruso

#41. Being a dick is when you're so self-centered, you think your ideas are pretty much the only worthy ones, and you secretly believe other people are inferior to you. [ ... ] You'd rather believe other people just can't handle how awesome you are. And you're right. All that awesomeness sucks, actually.

Tracy McMillan

#42. Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#43. It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Bruce Nash

#44. Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

Michael Baumgartner

#45. Questions are the sign of an active, intelligent mind, a filter you rinse your ideas through before you make a decision. But sometimes the filter gets clogged and then it becomes a barrier to the truth.

Kate Kerrigan

#46. When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Tim Fargo

#47. It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.

Peter Diamandis

#48. Never fear having your ideas stolen. Your creative idea is a image you are painting like a picture on a canvas, they may "steal" your idea, however they cannot steal your paints.

Sumner Davenport

#49. Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Kathryn Minshew

#50. It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

Adam Duritz

#51. Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Mick Jagger

#52. Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

Russell Simmons

#53. You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Francis Ford Coppola

#54. Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas

Michael Gates Gill

#56. Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

Cyndi Lee

#57. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Hafez

#58. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.

Ilchi Lee

#59. Remember, it's the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

Joel Greenblatt

#60. Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

Joseph Kosinski

#61. If you lead an active intellectual and emotional life, your ideas will grow with you.

Scott Berkun

#62. The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your words aren't good enough, you're no writer and so forth.

M. Molly Backes

#63. When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Tim O'Reilly

#64. When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#65. We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

Charlie Munger

#66. Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.

W. Arthur Porter

#67. If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#68. Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Amy Sedaris

#69. Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.

Nancy Duarte

#70. You will be peaceful when all your ideas about awareness are dropped and you begin to function like a computer. You must be a machine, function automatically in this world, never questioning your actions before, during, or after they occur.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#71. Bold choices require risk-taking. Let your ideas out to play. Make bold choices, sticking to your point of view, and letting go of the things that do not serve you.

Amy Lisewski

#72. The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

Lynn Johnston

#73. When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Philipp Meyer

#74. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Frank Laubach

#75. Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

Tim Westergren

#76. After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Andrew Lau

#77. When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

Cintra Wilson

#78. What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#79. Of course, your ideas can be stolen ... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment ... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

Peter Wolf

#80. It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.

Tim Blixseth

#81. Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.

Daniel Kahneman

#82. Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.

Steven Charles

#83. Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.

A.M. McKnight

#84. Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

Bob Burg

#85. No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Thom Mayne

#86. 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.

Jonah Hill

#87. Do not covet your ideas.

Paul Arden

#88. Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#89. Work on your ideas with the little money you have. Share your ideas with positive people who will help you carry them through. Never give up on your ideas. Be positively minded and pay the cost involved in accomplishing your dreams!

Israelmore Ayivor

#90. 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

#91. Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.

Israelmore Ayivor

#92. Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!

Israelmore Ayivor

#93. 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

#94. The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your humanness you come into.

John De Ruiter

#95. I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

Adam Rickitt

#96. How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

Barbara Marciniak

#97. The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

Anthony De Mello

#98. You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

Richie Hawtin

#99. If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need ... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!

Israelmore Ayivor

#100. People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Henri J.M. Nouwen