Ideas Quotes

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.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.