Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Dalai Lama

I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.

Dalai Lama

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion...

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Jack Kroll

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

Jack Layton

Ideas are always more important than money.

Jack Layton

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Jack Layton

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

J. J. Abrams

There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

J. J. Abrams

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

J. J. Abrams

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

J. J. Abrams

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J. J. Abrams

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.

Issey Miyake

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Isadora Duncan

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Irwin M. Jacobs

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Irwin Shaw

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Ira Glass

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Ira Glass

Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

Ira Glass

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Illeana Douglas

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

Jack McDevitt

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Jack Kemp

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Jack Kemp

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

Jack Foster

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

J. B. Priestley

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

J. Cole

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

Isaac Watts

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Isaac Newton

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

Isabel Allende

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.