Ideas Quotes · Page 280

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

— Mathias Dopfner

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

— Louis D. Brandeis

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

— Maya Angelou

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

— Marc Randolph

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

— Rachel Caine

Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously,…

— Franklin Foer

Both the composer and the filmmaker have to let go of their preconceived notions and listen to the film... When you do…

— Bear McCreary

The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're…

— Roger Enrico

From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity…

— Amanda de Cadenet

If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned…

— Hyman Rickover

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie…

— Desmond Tutu

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,…

— Daniel Smith

My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it.…

— Eddie Izzard

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…

— Richard Dawkins

First, I had no idea you were married. Somehow, I don't think Trillian knows, either." "I married Smoky and Morio to forge…

— Yasmine Galenorn

I worked with the late Leonard Frey. I did a play, and I would have these ideas and he would say, "I…

— Judd Nelson

There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries…

— Pat Buchanan

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in…

— Carolyn Wheat

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new…

— Judy Blume

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;…

— Jane Porter

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

— Doug Larson

I pitched ideas for fashion stories to magazines for years. And it was often; 'No, no, nope, next,' or worse, just silence.

— Angela Scanlon

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

— Paul Allen

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

— Marsden Hartley

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of…

— Don Cheadle

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

— Jane Smiley

“I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone.”

— B.C. Johnson

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

— Hilary Mantel

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

— Karl Lagerfeld

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

— Lola Kirke

I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

— Madchen Amick

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

— Albert Einstein

I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.

— Sean McDermott

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis