Ideas Quotes

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

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.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.