300 Quotes on Ideas

• 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

• Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

  Author: Jason Zebehazy

• 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

• 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

• 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 get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

  Author: Alex Winter

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

  Author: Roy 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Donald Westlake

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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

  Author: Arthur Waite

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Ken Thompson

• 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

• Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

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

  Author: Ben Stiller

• 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

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

  Author: Joseph Stefano

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: George Santayana

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: John Ruskin

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Hyman Rickover

• 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

• 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

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

  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

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

  Author: Paula Poundstone

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

  Author: William Pollard

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: George Orwell

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

  Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  Author: Wolfgang Mozart

• Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

  Author: Eric Morecambe

• A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

  Author: Thurston Moore

• Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

  Author: John McTiernan

• You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

  Author: John McTiernan

• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Author: Alexander McQueen

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Author: Malcolm Mclaren

• All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

  Author: Mark McGrath

• A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

  Author: William McFee

• In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

  Author: Andrew McCarthy

• The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

  Author: Thom Mayne

• So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

  Author: Thom Mayne

• Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

  Author: Henry Mayhew

• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  Author: Rollo May

• Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

  Author: James Maxwell

• Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

  Author: Kurt Masur

• Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

  Author: Jose Marti

• Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

  Author: Jose Marti

• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  Author: Don Marquis

• To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

  Author: Marino Marini

• There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

  Author: Heinrich Mann

• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  Author: Jena Malone

• You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

  Author: Stephane Mallarme

• I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

  Author: Gustav Mahler

• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Author: Harold MacMillan

• It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

  Author: Wangari Maathai

• A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

  Author: Trofim Lysenko

• So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

  Author: Adrian Lyne

• The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

  Author: Adrian Lyne

• The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

  Author: David Lynch

• I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

  Author: Brian Lumley

• There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

  Author: John Locke

• We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

  Author: John Locke

• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  Author: Vachel Lindsay

• It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

  Author: Arto Lindsay

• Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

  Author: Willy Ley

• You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

  Author: Sol LeWitt

• I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

  Author: Sean Lennon

• Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

  Author: Gottfried Leibniz

• 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.

  Author: Patrice Leconte

• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

  Author: Nicholas Lea

• Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

  Author: Edwin Land

• I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

  Author: Chiaki Kuriyama

• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  Author: Ted Koppel

• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

  Author: Richard King

• Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

  Author: Richard King

• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  Author: John Keynes

• The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

  Author: John Keynes

• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  Author: Patrick Kennedy

• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  Author: John Kennedy

• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Author: Helen Keller

• All ideas grow out of other ideas.

  Author: Anish Kapoor

• Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

  Author: Rosabeth Kanter

• A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

  Author: Paul Kagame

• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Author: Janos Kadar

• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Author: Donald Judd

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  Author: Lady Johnson

• One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

  Author: Jasper Johns

• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Author: Steve Jobs

• Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Author: Evan Hunter

• One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

  Author: William Hull

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Author: Douglas Horton

• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

  Author: Joel Hodgson

• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

  Author: Robyn Hitchcock

• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  Author: Bill Hicks

• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

  Author: Hermann Hesse

• I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

  Author: Jaime Hernandez

• We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.

  Author: John Hench

• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Author: Henry Hazlitt

• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  Author: Zahi Hawass

• Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

  Author: Paul Harris

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  Author: Godfrey Hardy

• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

  Author: G. Hardy

• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  Author: G. Hardy

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

  Author: Jasmine Guy

• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  Author: James Gunn

• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Author: Alfred Griswold

• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

  Author: Alfred Griswold

• This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

  Author: Franz Grillparzer

• I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

  Author: Lou Gramm

• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  Author: Sue Grafton

• Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

  Author: Remy Gourmont

• Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.

  Author: Charles Gounod

• To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

  Author: Arnold Glasgow

• We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

  Author: Terry Gilliam

• I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

  Author: Dizzy Gillespie

• I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

  Author: Michael Giles

• A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

  Author: Stan Getz

• At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

  Author: Bill Gates

• Ideas control the world.

  Author: James Garfield

• Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

  Author: Stephen Gardiner

• I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

  Author: Vincent Gallo

• So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

  Author: Neil Gaiman

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  Author: R. Fuller

• We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

  Author: Dawn French

• Ideas are fatal to caste.

  Author: E. Forster

• There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

  Author: John Ford

• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  Author: Henry Ford

• I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

  Author: Ralph Fiennes

• Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

  Author: Raymond Feist

• Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

  Author: William Feather

• The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

  Author: Paul Farmer

• All good ideas arrive by chance.

  Author: Max Ernst

• We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

  Author: Keith Emerson

• Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

  Author: David Elliott

• Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  Author: George Eliot

• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Author: Sergei Eisenstein

• You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

  Author: Julie Eisenhower

• The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Author: Thomas Edison

• Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

  Author: Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

  Author: Charles Eames

• I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

  Author: Marcel Duchamp

• Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

  Author: Mark Doren

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