Ideas Quotes · Page 143

Ideas are only as good as their implementation, and the promises I have made are the ones that I will keep.

— Zohran Mamdani

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

— Sheena Iyengar

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

— Rene Magritte

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not…

— Rene Descartes

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

— Ernst Mayr

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

— Mike Yaconelli

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old…

— Rush Limbaugh

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all…

— Madame de Stael

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character…

— Monique Coleman

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog…

— Anonymous

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain…

— Jello Biafra

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which…

— Robert Barry

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my…

— Aasif Mandvi

Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need…

— James Dean

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen…

— Jane Smiley

I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step…

— Henri Poincare

But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked…

— Loretta Chase

So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100…

— Alfred Gough

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they…

— Peggy Noonan

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what…

— William J. Duiker

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up…

— Eric Alterman

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is…

— Neil Postman

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

— Cher

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever…

— Criss Jami

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

— Tim Schafer

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

— Toni Morrison

“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.”

— Dean M. Schroeder

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the…

— Naomi Alderman

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

— Katha Pollitt

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

— Charles Stross

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services

— Raphael

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental…

— Anna Quindlen

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

— Ernesto Sirolli

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too.…

— Peace Pilgrim

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

— James Webb Young

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

— Duncan Green

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the…

— Graham Chapman

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

— Heinrich Heine