Ideas Quotes · Page 286

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

— John Ashbery

It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

— Ted Alexandro

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

— Judd Apatow

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

— Bozoma Saint John

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to…

— Russell Simmons

“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

— Billy Corgan

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it…

— Randy Pausch

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity,…

— Jean Cocteau

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to…

— Michael Heizer

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their…

— Fatih Ak?n

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject…

— Jessica Livingston

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You…

— Garrison Keillor

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in…

— Samuel Adams

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with…

— Julien Temple

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way…

— Zooey Deschanel

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with…

— Kevin O'Leary

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are…

— Edie Scott Hoffman

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the…

— Antonin Artaud

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure…

— William Drenttel

Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above…

— Wilferd Peterson

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same…

— Andrew Vachss

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six…

— Anonymous

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

— Ken Robinson

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

— Mark Leyner

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

— George Santayana

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

— Andre Gide

“You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy

— Dale Carnegie

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

— Stephen King

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

— Salman Rushdie

I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with…

— Natasha Friend

I enjoy challenging perspective - challenging ideas of what it means to be a black man.

— Stephan James