Quotes about ideas
ideas progress status-quo
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe Walter Benjamin
ideas wings nails
Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any. Virginia Woolf
ideas technique
Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques. William Bernbach
ideas sublime execution
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. William Blake
ideas progress scientist
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed. Werner Heisenberg
ideas fundamentals neutrons
The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
ideas fundamentals atoms
The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
ideas pie forever
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change. Wayne Thiebaud
ideas romance hard
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. Wallis Simpson
ideas documentaries portraits
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. Walker Evans
ideas feelings action
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time. Wallace Stegner
ideas america national-parks
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
ideas national-parks democratic
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
ideas silence needs
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea. Samuel Barber
ideas taste realizing
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ideas symbols highest
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
ideas people waiting
If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that. Salman Khan
ideas able usual
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas. Salvador Dali
ideas littles stories
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. Salman Rushdie
ideas people prejudice
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
ideas years interesting
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.
ideas religion islam
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.
ideas people killing
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
ideas criticism impossible
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
ideas trials earth
So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face. Ryan Tedder
ideas people want
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. Ryan Phillippe
ideas doing-me appeals
The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
ideas firsts directors
The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.' Ryan Reynolds
ideas differences important
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa. Wangari Maathai
ideas two development
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
ideas polish
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 Joseph Joubert
ideas glasses watches
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond. Joseph Kosinski
ideas pay taste
Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.