Quotes about ideas
ideas sun done
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done Nas
ideas fixing dose
Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ideas interesting scared
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
ideas stories black-swan
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
ideas greek arrogance
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
ideas rare-events swans
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
ideas facts enthusiasm
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas. N. T. Wright
ideas people way
I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this. Montel Williams
ideas would-be persona
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time. Miranda Richardson
ideas years interesting
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing. Miranda July
ideas people firsts
Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in. Mike McCue
ideas pieces inanimate-objects
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. Mike Mills
ideas literature matter
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. Mignon McLaughlin
ideas bullshit singing
I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music. Johnny Marr
ideas listening pants
You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants. John Wooden
ideas way literature
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. John Ruskin
ideas roots astrology
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
ideas
These are new ideas, ... That's why they are not comfortable. Hoshyar Zebari
ideas
These are just ideas right now. We need to have a lot more discussion.
ideas missing want
The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. Eric Lefkofsky
ideas people television
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week. Eric Idle
ideas action prelude
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action. Eric Hoffer
ideas careers able
I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. Philip Seymour Hoffman
ideas bullshit people
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world. Philip Roth
ideas
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
ideas history stories
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
ideas giving want
Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea. Peyton Manning
ideas people motivated
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better. Pharrell Williams
ideas pounds suvs
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable. Peter Diamandis
ideas people despair
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair. Peter De Vries
ideas action placement
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. Peter Drucker
ideas people
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.
ideas firm
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.