Idea Quotes

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.