Ideas Quotes · Page 270

If the idea is brilliant, but it is before time, hasten the time instead of changing the idea.

— Tasneem Hameed

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.

— Francis Picabia

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made…

— Michael Steinhardt

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself…

— Tilda Swinton

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

— Neale Donald Walsch

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

— Quincy Jones

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

— Roy Spencer

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

— Ryan Phillippe

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or…

— Les Dawson

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then…

— Willis Harman

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any…

— Jennifer Egan

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at…

— Mike Bloomfield

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in…

— Henry Ford

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a…

— Kid Rock

George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it…

— Remi Aubuchon

I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids…

— Josh Prince

There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei.…

— Rebecca Hamilton

I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They…

— Liam Gillick

A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or…

— Adrienne Rich

Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like…

— Richard Pipes

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others…

— Thomas A. Edison

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

— Richard Attenborough

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

— Bonnie Greer

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

— Dan Levitan

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

— Charles Kettering

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our…

— Bob Goff

There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea.

— Michael Patrick Walker

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

— Abraham Lincoln

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.…

— Orson Scott Card

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

— John C. Maxwell

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

— Aristotle

“They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.”

— Neal Shusterman

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

— Jackie Collins

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

— Reinhold Messner

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

— Michel Onfray