Ideas Quotes · Page 147

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea…

— Dacia Maraini

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the…

— Christina Ricci

“If people copy your ideas or thoughts, don´t stop them. It´s a sign, that you are an influencer.”

— Alin Sav

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get…

— Pat Ament

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

— Anonymous

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

— David Eagleman

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning…

— Baruch Spinoza

Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous…

— Kate Hudson

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with…

— Antoni Tapies

I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though…

— Yasmina Khadra

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to…

— Brennan Manning

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience…

— Charlyne Yi

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting…

— Bryan Cranston

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to…

— Felix Dennis

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels,…

— Dorothy Draper

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are…

— Gordon Livingston

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his…

— Stephen Hawking

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he…

— Colin Hay

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la…

— Leo Errera

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in…

— Brennan Manning

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for…

— Albert Einstein

Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin…

— William P. Perry

I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was…

— Zachary Quinto

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,…

— Charles Bukowski

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

— David Brooks

As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.

— Gillian Tans

If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove…

— Neal Brennan

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

— Hannes Holm

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

— Keith Morris

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

— Harrison Birtwistle

Anthony Mackie is better at being Sam Wilson than I am. So I embrace his ideas.

— Kari Skogland

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

— Farhan Akhtar

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

— Bell Hooks