Ideas Quotes · Page 226

There are things you think you cannot do. You have no idea how strong you are until you try.

— Jillian Michaels

I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.

— Anonymous

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,…

— James Mercer

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

— Kevin Systrom

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

— George Polya

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out…

— Anonymous

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

— David Gilmour

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

— James Bryant Conant

There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means…

— Reggie Watts

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no,…

— Robin Williams

Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you…

— Will Rogers

The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural…

— Anya Kamenetz

I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved…

— Jim Gaffigan

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that…

— John Baldoni

An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if…

— Aberjhani

You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick.” “You wanted a…

— Derek Landy

America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the…

— B. C. Forbes

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than…

— Sarah Polley

Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling…

— Todd Hido

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be…

— Ethan Hawke

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to…

— Stephanie Coontz

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were…

— Mercedes Lackey

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

— Will Smith

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

— Frederick Lenz

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and…

— Kit Williamson

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

— Samantha Bond

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you…

— Melody Minagar

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

— Frederick Lenz

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

— William Blake

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

— Mark Pagel

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

— Lionel Trilling

When humans can measure something, the first thing that always happens: an ecosystem of ideas and, eventually, industry springs up around it.

— Bryan Johnson

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

— Amy Dickinson

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

— Sheena Iyengar

Ideas are only as good as their implementation, and the promises I have made are the ones that I will keep.

— Zohran Mamdani