Ideas Quotes · Page 266

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

— Warren Rudman

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

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

— John O'Donohue

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

— Jill Tarter

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

— Seth Godin

Sometimes, you can only really get the good ideas to come out when you're not supposed to be in the studio.

— Ellie Rowsell

In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't…

— Marina Abramovic

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread…

— Kevin Ashton

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this…

— Luigi Pirandello

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were…

— V. S. Pritchett

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to…

— Nita Leland

We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room.” “That is not a wise idea,…

— Lisa Kleypas

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest…

— John F. Kennedy

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas.…

— Vaclav Havel

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if…

— Alexandra Adornetto

Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures;…

— Laura Riding

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some…

— William Gibson

Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in…

— Steven Weinberg

You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an…

— Tim Zuck

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer…

— Richard Bach

It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster…

— Anonymous

“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.”

— Paul Arden

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

— Edward Snowden

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

— Jane Smiley

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

— Watts Humphrey

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

— Chelsea Handler

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

— Alex Kozinski

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and…

— Robert Pattinson

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

— Alex Turner

The ideas that the left has is a bunch of foolishness. We don't need to be ashamed to say it.

— Mark Robinson

I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.

— David Linley

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

— Gioconda Belli

To pass on your ideas and have an influence on a team really interests me.

— Michael Ballack

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

— Anthony de Mello