Ideas Quotes · Page 268

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are…

— Richard J. Foster

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

— Confucius

The main challenge is being put into a tag team, where you've never done any tag team stuff before, even coming up…

— Pete Dunne

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

— Bethenny Frankel

I work out 3 and half hours a day. I get some of my best ideas while I'm working out.

— Zayed Khan

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that…

— Tony Blair

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

— Andy Hargreaves

I think it's only fair that Americans take into account who can keep them safe. Who has the best ideas for defeating…

— Hillary Clinton

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the…

— Max Beckmann

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is…

— Gloria Steinem

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that…

— Dan Brown

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes…

— Paola Antonelli

If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm…

— Don DeLillo

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and…

— Joe Biden

Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into…

— Sonny Rollins

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is…

— Scott Pelley

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the…

— B. F. Skinner

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people.…

— Aldous Huxley

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at…

— Emmet Gowin

I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas…

— Mariko Mori

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

— Howard Aiken

We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.

— Seth Rogen

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough…

— Sherilyn Fenn

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely…

— Danny Elfman

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

— Paul Banks

“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual…

— Ben Shahn

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

— Little Richard

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

— Samuel Johnson

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

— Angus Deaton

I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

— Bill Watterson

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

— Hyman Bass

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth,…

— Voltaire

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end…

— Pharrell Williams

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I like to keep my life very fluid. I like serendipity and rolling through different ideas and possibilities.

— Bryan Johnson