Ideas Quotes

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

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

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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

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

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

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.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

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

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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

Ideas control the world.

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.

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

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

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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

You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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.

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

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

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

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

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

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.

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.

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.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

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.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.