Ideas Quotes

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

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.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.