Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Jim Rohn

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

Jim Rohn

Ideas are information taking shape.

George Matthew Adams

There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

George Lucas

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

George Lucas

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

George Lucas

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.

George Lucas

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

George Lucas

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ...

George MacDonald

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

George MacDonald

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George Lois

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

George Lois

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Emily Ratajkowski

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

Elliott Erwitt

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Elliott Abrams

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

Ellie Goulding

I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.

Ellie Goulding

I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

Elizabeth Hand

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

Elizabeth Gaskell

...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life.She crept away, and hid from his idea. But it was of no use

Elizabeth Gaskell

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Josh Henderson

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

Josh Holloway

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

Josh Groban

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Joseph McCabe

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Katherine Dunn

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

Katherine Anne Porter

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Kara Walker

Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

Karen Armstrong

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Joyce Meyer

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

Karen Kingsbury

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Justin Sane

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.