Ideas Quotes · Page 200

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't…

— Jane Goodall

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

— Kanye West

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

— Steve Martin

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm…

— Tim Hetherington

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

— Sol LeWitt

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live…

— Errollyn Wallen

Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have…

— Wayne White

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation…

— Anonymous

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about…

— Anne Enright

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with…

— Mark Morris

Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing…

— Paul Newman

The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act…

— Judith Butler

If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking…

— Thomas Jefferson

At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in…

— Edwin Catmull

You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few.…

— Charlie Munger

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented…

— Ellen G. White

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.

— Sailor Jerry

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

— Phil Donahue

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

— Hank Green

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools…

— John Keats

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it…

— Jacob Bronowski

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.

— Ludwig Goransson

I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of…

— Jørgen Leth

I'm a really big fan of Monique Heart. I always think she has some really creative ideas.

— Manila Luzon

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

— Morgan Spurlock

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from…

— Jasper Johns

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

— Christopher Hitchens

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

— Michel de Montaigne

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant