Ideas Quotes

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.