Ideas Quotes

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

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.