Quotes about ideas
ideas innovation be-good
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel
ideas people effort
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance. Alfred North Whitehead
ideas issues feelings
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
ideas perfection belief
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
ideas action birth
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
ideas may firsts
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
ideas progress fundamentals
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
ideas mind combination
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
ideas innovation done
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
ideas culprit no-idea
They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was. Alex Ferguson
ideas quitting ifs
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
ideas president united-states
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. Alec Baldwin
ideas literature huxley
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. Aldous Huxley
ideas mind trying
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that the magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
ideas world obscure
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
ideas execution genius
Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous. Albert Einstein
ideas world causality
The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible
ideas firsts doe
For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
ideas shaving
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
ideas obstinacy originals
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.
ideas process
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
ideas acting thousand
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall. Kevin Spacey
ideas creative together
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit. Abigail Washburn
ideas benefits stuff
Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff. Aaron Ross
ideas stealing
Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it. Aaron Patzer
ideas insane passionate
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. A. J. Jacobs
ideas long want
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
ideas years hips
I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’ A. Scott Berg
ideas generations sound
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson Aaron Allston
ideas music-is feels
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. A. R. Rahman
ideas empresses connected
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. A. E. Waite
ideas people coercion
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. A. Bartlett Giamatti
ideas frightening no-idea
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.... Agatha Christie