Quotes about ideas
ideas leader faces
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment John Sculley
ideas ignorant-masses knowledgeable
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. John Perry Barlow
ideas negativity demoralizing
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. John Podhoretz
ideas littles height
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather. Martin Luther
ideas white movement
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. Mark Tobey
ideas acting transformation
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting. Mark Strong
ideas long going-away
But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours. Nick Lowe
ideas numbers people
I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing "That guy is also that guy!" "Oh, he does that!" I really like having a number of different ways to reach people. Nick Kroll
ideas trying one-day
For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.
ideas people waiting
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.
ideas light people
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing. Nick Cave
ideas idle bad-ideas
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
ideas kind shame
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
ideas perspective events
An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow. Nick Bantock
ideas answers architecture
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? Nancy Banks Smith
ideas white giving
You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power Nancy Gibbs
ideas no-idea
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. Mose Allison
ideas brilliant mines
I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure. Ozzy Osbourne
ideas debtors good-times
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. P. G. Wodehouse
ideas lemons
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
ideas jeeves principles
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.
ideas desire able
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. Ovid
ideas two different
I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me. Paul Newman
ideas reading-poetry skins
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle
ideas essence might
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. Paul Farmer
ideas interesting different
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place. Marya Hornbacher
ideas body substance
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body. Marsilio Ficino
ideas mind patterns
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind. Martha Beck
ideas realizing good-ideas
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe. Mark Haddon
ideas way different
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you. Marion Cotillard
ideas want sanctification
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me. Oswald Chambers
ideas goal purpose
We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
ideas land healthy
There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. Paul Rudd