Quotes about idea

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

Akshay's idea of a romantic date is a six-kilometre jog, followed by 500 crunches... together! Eeeeks!

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores.

Find a right and a beautiful idea stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind

Over preparation paralyzes ideas Ideas love speed!!! Act Now!

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas every bad moment gives them lessons.

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while

Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyone, at the same time. And at the same time no-one can't be someone, but anyone can be one, and also anyone can be a no-one. To sum up - everyone is someone, and any-one becomes a no-one if you divide the one part long enough by every part of every-one, so in conclusion, I have no idea what I’m talking about, basically.

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpreta

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

The certificate that promotes a divine idea is humility. Period. Get yourself upgraded with the good news of humility every day! Sometimes, it's hard to prove your humility in the face of people, but never forget that it is the only option for your divine promotion!

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

Remember when your dream was just an idea; never forget when nobody could see what you saw, when there was no win in sight.

Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The p

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!

It's wrong to think that money is the first requirement for great accomplishments. This argument is neither here nor there. Money or no money, success begins with your ideas.

In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not meet the person meant to finance it!

Work on your ideas with the little money you have. Share your ideas with positive people who will help you carry them through. Never give up on your ideas. Be positively minded and pay the cost involved in accomplishing your dreams!

If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!

Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams. Think about the possibility of what you plan to do and approach it with an optimistic action. Stay positively.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present itself, still from the pool, and a bit shivery because new ideas are not given a towel to dry off with, towels being reserved for proven theories; new ideas are simply pulled and stood up, and asked to explain themselves - not a very pleasant thing re

Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it’s an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren’t familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.

Rosy waited as long as she dared then sat forward and let her eye rove Franny’s lounge, up and down the shelves, looking for something, not even sure she could bring herself to act if she saw it again, already convinced this was her worst ever idea

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.

I don't buy 'regret' idea. I need life's good lesson.

How to get it, I annoy you???You are not interested???What's the idea???

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

Talon thought kissing Flit to shut him up might be a good idea. He was wrong. It was a fucking great idea.

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.