Ideas Quotes · Page 177

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

— Robert Barry

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

— Bill Maher

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was…

— Haroon Mirza

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

— Mark Messier

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on…

— Neil Gaiman

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized…

— William Howard Taft

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time…

— Georg Baselitz

If you think you got a better idea in terms of how to approach this that's not gonna result in more pollution,…

— Barack Obama

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back…

— Charlotte Bronte

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture…

— Margaret Mahy

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower…

— Charles Best

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same…

— Andrea Gibson

All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments…

— Frank Laubach

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was,…

— J. K. Rowling

Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that…

— David Livermore

Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was…

— Khoi Vinh

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get…

— David Lynch

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a…

— James Welling

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about…

— Stephen King

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

— William Feather

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

— Elbert Hubbard

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

— Quintilian

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's…

— Markus Zusak

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

— Konosuke Matsushita

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down…

— Camilo Jose Cela

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

— Douglas Wood

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

— Bubba Watson

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

— David Mamet

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

— Denise Morrison

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

— Stanislaw Lem

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

— Steve Henry