Ideas Quotes

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.