Ideas Quotes · Page 208

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

— Bradford Morrow

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

— Brian Tracy

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.

— Craig Finn

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

— John Medina

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

— Mary Beth Danielson

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

— Luther Standing Bear

Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that…

— Nick Mason

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most…

— David Cobley

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often…

— Albert Ellis

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force…

— Anonymous

I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will…

— Michael D. Higgins

What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of…

— Sargent Shriver

Mesmerizing! I've heard Jim Rohn speak on numerous occasions and I still listen intently to every word he says. His delivery is…

— Tony Alessandra

I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy…

— Charles Murray

Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I…

— Marc Andreessen

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation…

— Richard J. Foster

The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses…

— Adolf Hitler

Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the…

— Chinua Achebe

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very…

— Anonymous

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm…

— Marcus du Sautoy

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long…

— Shirin Ebadi

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

— Edward Enninful

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

— Thomas Jefferson

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

— Jasper Johns

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

— Duncan Jones

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

— Jonah Lehrer

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

— John Mortimer

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made…

— Michael Steinhardt

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself…

— Tilda Swinton

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

— Neale Donald Walsch

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

— Richard Koch

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to…

— Bhagat Singh

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

— Virginia Woolf

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

— Jimenez Lai

'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

— Virgil Abloh

If the idea is brilliant, but it is before time, hasten the time instead of changing the idea.

— Tasneem Hameed