Ideas Quotes · Page 167

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

— Alice Miller

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

— Chris Rock

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

— Frank Gehry

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

— Leo Buscaglia

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

— Win Butler

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that…

— Edwin Catmull

Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

— Matt Lauer

Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that…

— Vivianne Crowley

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they…

— Anonymous

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming…

— Laura Wade

When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all…

— Claude Bernard

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas…

— Oscar Wilde

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get…

— Richard Lederer

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires,…

— Elie Wiesel

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity.…

— David Suchet

If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. .…

— Wes Anderson

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in…

— Robert Faurisson

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and…

— Charles Edward Merriam

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms…

— Jerome Bruner

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly…

— Dalton Trumbo

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied…

— Tom Stoppard

Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields…

— Geoff Mulgan

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

— J. J. Abrams

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort…

— Justin Adams

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

— Geoffrey Beene

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

— Stephen Starr

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

— Ben Nicholson

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes I just need somebody to tell me a bunch of ideas I don't like, so that I can figure out what…

— Phoebe Bridgers

In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.

— George Raveling

We come to embrace the ideas of a freedom that guarantees the prosperity of Argentines.

— Javier Milei

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

— Steve Case

People roll their eyes at the idea of Kanye West running for president. I do not.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to…

— Richard Bach

“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.”

— Red Red Rover

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

— Chris Elliott

Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

— Charles Lee