Idea Quotes

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

A great idea is not enough.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.