Ideas Quotes

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.