Ideas Quotes · Page 212

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

— A. D. Gordon

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

— Laurie Helgoe

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

— William McFee

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

— Mike Patton

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a…

— Katherine Anne Porter

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

— Vidal Sassoon

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

— Anselm Kiefer

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

— Dan Quayle

In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in…

— Dean Spade

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to…

— Adam Hamilton

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner…

— Jennifer Egan

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I…

— Marissa Mayer

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea…

— George Brandis

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment...…

— Peter Wolf

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people…

— Tommy Lee Jones

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and…

— Steve McFadden

I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know,…

— Shreya Ghoshal

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend…

— Seth Godin

In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid…

— Emilio G. Segre

You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall.…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut…

— Vince Cable

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts.…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female.

— Josh Duhamel

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

— Ralph Steadman

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

— Willem de Kooning

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

— Jill Tarter

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.

— John O'Donohue

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

— Seth Godin

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea…

— Pedro Arrupe

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

— Alexander Herzen

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you…

— Warren Rudman

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to…

— James Patterson

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

— Forest Ray Moulton

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

— Jennifer Weiner

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

— Marilyn vos Savant

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

— Robert Reed