Idea Quotes

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.