Ideas Quotes

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Ideas are the root of creation.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.