Quotes about ideas

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

The destiny of any country is in the hands of the people who know God they are the people who carry Christian ideas

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

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

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.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts but those who have fats in their positive ideas.

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

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

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

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

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

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

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

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.

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

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

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives words and ideas change the world.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

An idea is something you have an ideology is something that has you

Anyone can produce a new fact the thing is to produce a new idea.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

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

It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!

A philosophy must be livable it can't just be ideas.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal you tune in different frequencies.

Some ideas take you to the stars some sinks you to the mud!

Becoming limitless involves mental agility the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

Simple ideas INVOLVE individuals INSPIRE crowds INNOVATE HUMANITY

People are intelligent it is their ideas that are stupid.

Brew it local make it global take it to the very far.

Ideas are easy Saying it is easy Doing it is difficult.

For that is what you are, that is who you are – you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe...This difficult season will pass – your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you...And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek – even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write… perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. - Laurie to Jo, on writing

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity. "The ideas Earthlings held didn't matter for hundreds of thousands of years, since they couldn't do much about them anyway. Ideas might as well be badges as anything."They even had a saying

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people are capable of acquiring new ideas of political or social behaviour after they are twenty-five years old. On the other hand, few people become directive in these matters until they are between forty and fifty. Then they prevail for twenty years or more. The conduct of public affairs therefore is necessarily twenty years or more behind the living tho

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.

If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas

Your Presentation is Your Capability.

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be of

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our p

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the socie

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if a few corporations control the information system: in fact, that is the essence of democracy. In the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the leading figure of the public relations industry, Edward Bernays, explains that “the very essence of the democratic process” is “the freedom to persuade and suggest,” what he calls “the engineering of consent.” “A leader,” he contin

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

My ideas aren't afraid of height.

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words.

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at o

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

Right. So no plans at all then?"Jenna frowned. "Other than rocking in the fetal position for a while?""Yeah, I was thinking about taking one of those showers where you huddle in the corner fully clothed and cry," Archer offered.

Always explore new opportunities and ideas, you never know which will work for you

In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts.

Time is needed to convert all ideas and added values into the tangible products that benefits the world.

If you don't keep track of great ideas, you'll stop noticing you have them.

Every choice starts with a decision. Every decision starts with a thought. Every thought starts with a pre-conceived idea. It is up to you to decide what you do with each but always remember that the choice you make will result in the consequence you face.

If you want to do something in your life,share everything but never your ideas.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas—like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male “honor” that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls—you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and conseq

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.