300 Quotes on Ideas

• Ideas sprout silently in the seams of waking a respite, where drifting insignificance births unexpected brilliance.

  Author: Clara Wynn

• In holding spaces of quiet, we sow the earliest seeds of transformation; innovation thrives where the tongue rests, trusting unspoken ideas to glow in the shadows of contemplation.

  Author: Elena Stratfield

• Inspiration flits past like a brief gust of wind, energizing thoughts that must intrinsically cling to structure if they're ever to ignite deeply.

  Author: Lydia Coral

• The spaces between our acorns and oaks are measured not in inches, but in hidden tales of yawning roots and silent seasons.

  Author: Calderh Finnerty

• Within the intricate tapestry of life, how captivating it is that mere chance intertwines with delicate intentions, allowing readdressed impulses to bear remarkable synchronicity.

  Author: Calista Raines

• In the gentle woven fabric of pragmatic daydreaming, lanes of possibility hum softly sogar priorities come to a spontaneous renewal within the sought mundane.

  Author: Elara Sitvik

• Like a storm, creativity brews within chaos, bringing forth the most beautiful ideas.

  Author: Miranda Carter

• Creativity breeds innovation, bringing to life ideas never imagined before.

  Author: Samantha Jones

• Ideas are the currency of innovation and the foundation of progress.

  Author: Gabrielle Townsend

• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

  Author: Jason Zebehazy

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Author: Fareed Zakaria

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  Author: Cao Yu

• I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

  Author: Neil Young

• Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  Author: Francis Wright

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  Author: Francis Wright

• All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

  Author: Grant Wood

• I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

  Author: Roy Williams

• No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Author: Robin Williams

• It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

  Author: Claude Williams

• I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

  Author: Theodore White

• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  Author: William Whewell

• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

  Author: Kim Weston

• Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

  Author: Edward Weston

• If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

  Author: Donald Westlake

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  Author: H. Wells

• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  Author: Jack Welch

• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

  Author: Jack Welch

• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

  Author: Peter Weiss

• There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

  Author: Peter Weir

• Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

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

  Author: Isaac Watts

• In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

  Author: Bill Watterson

• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  Author: Jody Watley

• The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

  Author: Larry Wall

• I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

  Author: Arthur Waite

• I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

  Author: Sol Wachtler

• My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

  Author: Donatella Versace

• Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Author: Jeffery Veen

• I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  Author: Ville Valo

• A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  Author: Paul Valery

• Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

  Author: Paul Valery

• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

  Author: Miguel Unamuno

• I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

  Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

• I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

  Author: Mark Twain

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  Author: Rachel True

• Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

  Author: Charlie Trotter

• Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

  Author: Jean-Louis Trintignant

• This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

  Author: Obie Trice

• The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

  Author: John Thune

• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

  Author: Sheri Tepper

• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• The good ideas will survive.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

  Author: Amy Tan

• Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  Author: Harriet Stowe

• Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  Author: Martha Stewart

• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Author: Anne Stevenson

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

  Author: Joseph Stefano

• Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

  Author: Tommy Smothers

• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

  Author: William Smith

• There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

  Author: Jane Smiley

• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

  Author: Russell Simmons

• These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

  Author: Dave Sim

• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Author: Shel Silverstein

• Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

  Author: Hugh Sidey

• As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

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

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  Author: Lal Shastri

• I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

  Author: David Selznick

• I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

  Author: Leah Sears

• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

  Author: David Seabury

• On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

  Author: William Scott

• I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.

  Author: Sean Scott

• I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

  Author: Frank Scott

• Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

  Author: Brian Schweitzer

• I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

  Author: Stanley Schmidt

• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

  Author: Richard Scaife

• I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

  Author: Adam Savage

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

  Author: George Santayana

• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  Author: George Santayana

• In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

  Author: Saadi

• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

  Author: Joanna Russ

• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

  Author: Jane Rule

• All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

  Author: Ann Rule

• Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

  Author: Mark Rothko

• Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

  Author: Tim Roth

• The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

  Author: Richard Rorty

• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

  Author: James Robinson

• We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

  Author: Jay Roach

• Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

  Author: Antoine Rivarol

• We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

  Author: Dennis Ritchie

• At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

  Author: Dennis Ritchie

• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

  Author: Hyman Rickover

• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  Author: Ralph Regula

• To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

  Author: Scott Reed

• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  Author: B. Reece

• Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

  Author: Robert Redford

• When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

  Author: Satyajit Ray

• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Author: Diane Ravitch

• So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

  Author: Frederic Raphael

• For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

  Author: Joey Ramone

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Author: Karl Radek

• Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  Author: Joseph Priestley

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Author: Jack Prelutsky

• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

  Author: Paula Poundstone

• The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

  Author: William Pollard

• People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  Author: John Poindexter

• Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

  Author: Henri Poincare

• A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

  Author: Frederik Pohl

• I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

  Author: John Podesta

• In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

  Author: John Podesta

• There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

  Author: John Podesta

• That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

  Author: John Podesta

• The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

  Author: Rosamund Pike

• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Author: Elizabeth Phelps

• If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

  Author: Rick Perry

• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

  Author: Evita Peron

• Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

  Author: Alan Perlis

• Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

  Author: Pericles

• Exchange ideas frequently.

  Author: James Penney

• We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

  Author: Joseph Pearce

• The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

  Author: Jeremy Paxman

• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Author: Linus Pauling

• We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

  Author: Les Paul

• When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

  Author: Michel Patini

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  Author: Walter Pater

• I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

  Author: Robert Parker

• It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

  Author: Kathleen Parker

• I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

  Author: Nick Park

• I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

  Author: Grace Paley

• While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

  Author: Bill Owens

• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

  Author: George Orwell

• I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.

  Author: Leonard Orr

• What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

  Author: Jamie Oliver

• I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

  Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

• I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

  Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

• Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

  Author: Catherine O'Hara

• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Author: Roger Oech

• If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

  Author: Roger Oech

• I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

  Author: Robert Nozick

• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

  Author: Alfred Nobel

• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

  Author: Anais Nin

• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

  Author: Helmut Newton

• Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

  Author: John Newman

• Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

  Author: Arnold Newman

• I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

  Author: Bill Nelson

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