Ideas Quotes · Page 265

“great ideas originate from one of three things: A need An unsolved problem An easier way of doing things”

— Greg S. Reid

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

— John Updike

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

— Hilary Mantel

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

— Shannon Lee

Suicide is a terrible idea, but if you're going to end it, do so at a Pinkberry near you.

— Dov Davidoff

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

— John Henrik Clarke

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a…

— Prince Philip

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

— Tom Peters

It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of…

— Azazel Jacobs

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash…

— Arfi Lamba

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a…

— Hans Hofmann

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive…

— Bill Gates

Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat…

— Dennis Lehane

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had…

— Joe Meno

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can…

— Al Yankovic

Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this…

— Immortal Technique

I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But…

— Scott Avett

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For…

— Marc Jacobs

I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close…

— David Blankenhorn

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do…

— Christopher Nolan

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't…

— Brenda Ueland

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is…

— Jonah Lehrer

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is…

— Olivia Palermo

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in…

— Michael D. Barnes

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

— Catherine O'Hara

“-Soy de ideas claras .Si algo me gusta,me gusta de verdad y para siempre.”

— Ángeles Ibirika

I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.

— Demetri Martin

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

— Emile Coue

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by…

— Chris Oyakhilome

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

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

— Robert Frost

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Alexander Herzen

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

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

— James Patterson

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

— James Madison

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