Ideas Quotes · Page 146

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

— George Polya

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

— Kevin Systrom

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna." "I have no idea what you're talking…

— Cassandra Clare

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

— Florian Schneider

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

— Anatole France

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

— Anonymous

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

— Jane Smiley

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest…

— Nadia Boulanger

I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some…

— Michael C. McMillen

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories…

— Jeff Britting

The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting…

— Ann Coulter

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best…

— Jack Welch

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just…

— Petra Haden

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if…

— Neil LaBute

I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas…

— Joshua Roman

Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I'm following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work…

— Aerin Lauder

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their…

— Ellen Gilchrist

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself…

— B. C. Forbes

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas…

— Julie Taymor

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare…

— Charlton Heston

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…

— Noam Chomsky

“It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.”

— Lorii Myers

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

— Lana Del Rey

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with…

— Dean Kamen

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

— Anonymous

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

— David Mamet

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old…

— Louise Hay

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

— Mark-Anthony Turnage

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

— Zahi Hawass

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

— Jeri Ryan

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

— Charles M. Schwab

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

— Meredith Belbin

We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.

— Charles Best

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an…

— Robert Henri

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not…

— Walter Lippmann