Ideas Quotes

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.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

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.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

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.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.