Ideas Quotes

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

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.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Exchange ideas frequently.

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.