Ideas Quotes · Page 154

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

— Stephen Hawking

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

— Teddy Geiger

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

— Hermann Hesse

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting…

— Ryan Gosling

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

— Milan Kundera

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

— Stanley Nelson Jr

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with…

— Sam Altman

There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of…

— Paul Gilbert

Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan,…

— Maria Franziska von Trapp

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

— J. G. Ballard

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize…

— Anonymous

I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to…

— Robert Barry

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is…

— Nicholas Negroponte

It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a…

— Agatha Christie

There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment.…

— Eustace Conway

There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher…

— Noam Chomsky

I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the…

— Jack Handey

I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly…

— Zachary Cole Smith

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic."…

— Murray Rothbard

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted…

— Brian Eno

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

— Robert Collier

We're are our own profound. All ideas spark a fire within ourselves to be aware of not being aware.

— Jeremy Limn

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

— Cher Wang

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown…

— John Gierach

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

— Tim Cahill

There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I…

— Jim Gaffigan

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and…

— Kevin Spacey

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of…

— Russell Baker

I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock…

— Luke Haines

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

— Jeffery Deaver

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

— Jim DeMint

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

— David Rabe

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll