Ideas Quotes · Page 261

Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

— Boland T. Jones

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.

— Frederick Lenz

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

— Damon Albarn

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

— Ian Hacking

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

— Danielle Steel

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

— Edwin Newman

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

— Martin Villeneuve

The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's…

— Michael Haneke

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their…

— Claude Bernard

A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything…

— Kathleen Kennedy

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests…

— George Lucas

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such…

— Jon Fratelli

The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern…

— Oswald Chambers

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks,…

— Ted Nugent

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see…

— John Muir

I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or…

— George W. Bush

A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,…

— Brenda Webster

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're…

— Cindy Sherman

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love…

— Rajneesh

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want…

— Rich Mullins

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually…

— B. B. King

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

— Walt Disney

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

— Martine Syms

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone…

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

— Michael J. Knowles

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human…

— Lin Yutang

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying…

— Issa Rae

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

— Ted Alexandro

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

— Swami Vivekananda

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

— Napoleon Hill

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

— Mark Pincus

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

— Anthony Head

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love…

— Kevin DeYoung

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

— Randy Sandke

“I don't start riots. I start ideas, influence thought, and incite intelligent actions.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin