Quotes about ideas
ideas people soul
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. Margaret Atwood
ideas important concepts
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work. Marcel Duchamp
ideas mind painting
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.
ideas indifference objects
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
ideas clothes shifting
I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else. Marc Almond
ideas creating leader
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate. Kevin Mattson
ideas people cost
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear. Ken Livingstone
ideas creative leader
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued. Ken Robinson
ideas knowing people
I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people. Kathy Ireland
ideas disease no-idea
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. Margaret Chan
ideas tvs
In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV. Margaret Cho
ideas needs fur
[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
ideas
The ancients stole all our ideas from us. Mark Twain
ideas kaleidoscope new-ideas
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
ideas breaking-rules young
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
ideas world curious
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
ideas literature unions
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
ideas glasses giving
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
ideas color design
I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is. Leonardo da Vinci
ideas remembrance painting
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. Paul Gauguin
ideas unexpected wit
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Patrick O'Brian
ideas what-if want
Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question. Patrick Rothfuss
ideas fae pieces
But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
ideas yuppies people
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere. Patricia Arquette
ideas young filmmaker
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. Patrice Leconte
ideas trying getting-older
No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
ideas dancer desire
In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too. Parvesh Cheena
ideas flying no-idea
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much. Lily Aldridge
ideas knowing advertising
I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling. Lily Cole
ideas sculpture paint
I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.
ideas expression brain
Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off. Lev Yilmaz
ideas habit eternity
habit is our idea of eternity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
ideas structure new-ideas
New ideas require new structures. Leroy Hood