Quotes about ideas
ideas intellectual signals
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels. Richard Hofstadter
ideas free-will biology
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. Richard Dawkins
ideas matter facts
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. Richard Dawkins
ideas too-much ridiculous
I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. Richard Dawkins
ideas great-idea last-sacrifice
I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea. Richelle Mead
ideas littles family-problems
So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea. Richelle Mead
ideas giving soul
All this time…ever since I sold my soul, I’ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there was something to give me hope that even if I was a lost cause, at least there was something bright and good in the world. But there isn’t. If there was, Seth wouldn’t have fallen. Erik wouldn’t have died. Andrea Mortensen wouldn’t be dying.” -Georgina to Carter Richelle Mead
ideas voice needs
You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you. Richelle Mead
ideas people
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. Richard Avedon
ideas feelings exhilaration
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. Rex Harrison
ideas luxury denim
Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel. Renzo Rosso
ideas united-states states
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. Richard Bach
ideas people giving
If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you. Russell Brand
ideas self people
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet. Russell Brand
ideas drawing paper
See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest. Russell Brand
ideas people feels
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
ideas revolution radical
The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have. Russell Brand
ideas upright-man revolutionary
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. Thomas Sankara
ideas
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. Thomas Sowell
ideas important raw-materials
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial. Thomas Sowell
ideas people design
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary. Thomas Sowell
ideas people important
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric. Thomas Sowell
ideas political would-be
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... Thomas Sowell
ideas people political
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments. Thomas Sowell
ideas moral monopoly
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. Thomas Sowell
ideas wealth problem
Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems. Robert H. Schuller
ideas innovation impossible
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem. Robert H. Schuller
ideas flow cash
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. Robert H. Schuller
ideas intellectual matter
You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have. Robert Greene
ideas people world
Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive. Robert Greene
ideas people desire
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. Robert Greene
ideas weight alternatives
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. Robert Atkins
ideas
The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me. Robert Barry