Ideas Quotes

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.