Ideas Quotes · Page 195

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of…

— Philip Kitcher

Throwing up is natures way of saying you need to re-examine your idea of a good time.

— Dov Davidoff

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

— Leonard Peikoff

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

— Thurston Moore

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

— Charlotte Mason

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

— Eric Maisel

Our lifetime is short and limited, but the ideas, actions and thoughts we produce can easily remain unlimited.

— Rashida Rowe

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

— Seth Godin

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong…

— John Locke

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,…

— Elizabeth Strout

I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I…

— Jack Nicholson

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of…

— Bassam Tibi

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial…

— Leo Bogart

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea…

— H. P. Lovecraft

If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called…

— Garry Kasparov

For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately…

— Nigel Gibson

“I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a…

— Dee Williams

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of…

— Greg Koukl

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me…

— Charles Bradlaugh

When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they…

— John Loengard

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

— Seve Ballesteros

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.

— Robert Kubica

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

— Sam Altman

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and…

— Elliott Colla

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

— Akiva Goldsman

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size… Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,

— Satoru Iwata

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

— Peggy Orenstein

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of…

— Freeman Dyson

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

— Scott Belsky

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

“The idea turned Facebook into the digital version of a message in a bottle.”

— Massimo Marino

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

— Ivan Turgenev

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr