Quotes about ideas
ideas creating use
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. Sarah Zettel
ideas belief dangerous
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. Sarah Vowell
ideas excuse funding
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. Sarah Lacy
ideas way strategy
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process. Sarah Kay
ideas continents five
'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had. Sanjeev Bhaskar
ideas remembrance mind
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place. Samuel Johnson
ideas wish lovers
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. Samuel Johnson
ideas tree world
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas. Wallace Stevens
ideas inspire able
You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE Vivek Wadhwa
ideas problem static
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. William Hull
ideas dollars bullets
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. William Howard Taft
ideas simplicity complexity
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. Will Wright
ideas scripture progressive
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. Walter Lang
ideas justice littles
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. Walter Lippmann
ideas creative insecurity
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious. Walter Lippmann
ideas idols fruit
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit. Walter Lippmann
ideas furniture eternity
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity. Walter Lippmann
ideas wonderful sensations
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. Voltaire
ideas stomach spite
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. Voltaire
ideas new-ideas
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. William Pollard
ideas track people
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. William Hurt
ideas migration facts
Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea. William Least Heat-Moon
ideas facts persons
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact. William Boyd
ideas stories needs
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. William Butler Yeats
ideas breakfast poet
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete. William Butler Yeats
ideas feelings return
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. Wilhelm Wundt
ideas psychology analysis
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. Wilhelm Wundt
ideas heaven feelings
Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. Wilhelm von Humboldt
ideas welcome talent
Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated. Walter Wriston
ideas rising tides
The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts. Walter F. Mondale
ideas excellence black
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? Walter Dean Myers
ideas issues way
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. Yo-Yo Ma
ideas sound clarity
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. Yo-Yo Ma