Quotes about ideas
ideas giving design
Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life. Peter Lawrence
ideas action concrete
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Peter Kropotkin
ideas elitist persons
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. Peter Kreeft
ideas confusion understanding
The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. Pema Chodron
ideas scary taught
The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
ideas praise lord
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. Phil Donahue
ideas selling-things vehicle
The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.
ideas information association
Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network. Peter Russell
ideas america people
One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do. Peter Roskam
ideas catholic becoming
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest. Peter Jurasik
ideas serendipity different
Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity. Peter James
ideas people world
I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that! Peter Cameron
ideas people firsts
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things. Peter Carey
ideas people dresses
People are more interested in ideas than dress. Pierre Trudeau
ideas manifest generator
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
ideas within-you
When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself. Phylicia Rashad
ideas medieval facets
Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it. Phyllis Diller
ideas imagination urban
Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason. Philip Pullman
ideas movement infinity
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal. Rabindranath Tagore
ideas perfect joy
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
ideas people world
Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes. It's also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet. Queen Rania of Jordan
ideas bullets ideology
You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.
ideas spoken-word
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Pythagoras
ideas people house
I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be. Queen Latifah
ideas space mind
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this. Terence McKenna
ideas knowing shapes
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going. Teju Cole
ideas brain matter
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say. Ted Chiang
ideas light thousand
One idea lights a thousand candles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas essence way
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
ideas citizens lovers
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
ideas race lasts
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
ideas house ends
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
ideas issues coward
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.