Idea Quotes

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.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.