Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Udall

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Steve Jobs

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

Steve Jobs

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Steve Jobs

I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

Steve Jobs

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Steve Case

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

Steve Case

In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.

Steve Case

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

Steve Case

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Steve Earle

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Stephen Starr

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

Stephen Spender

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

Stephen Sondheim

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

Stephen Sondheim

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Mike Huckabee

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Pearl S. Buck

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Paula Radcliffe

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Philip Gourevitch

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Philip Emeagwali

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Philip Greenspun

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

Peter Lawrence

Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.

Peter Kropotkin

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Peter Kreeft

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Pema Chodron

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Pema Chodron

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Phil Donahue

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Phil Donahue

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Peter Russell

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.