Ideas Quotes

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Exchange ideas frequently.

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!