Ideas Quotes · Page 294

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

— Anonymous

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

— Anonymous

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can…

— Michael Seibel

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

— Lee Hsien Loong

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

— Matt Nix

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

— Albert Einstein

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

— Gloria Steinem

To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.

— Johnny Weir

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop…

— Bruce Lee

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are.…

— Tom Clancy

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with…

— Jonah Hill

The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating…

— Elizabeth May

My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an…

— Taylor Swift

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better…

— Louis Sachar

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with…

— Martin Amis

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to…

— Gus Van Sant

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and…

— Eric Butterworth

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have…

— William J. Mitchell

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts,…

— Deb Caletti

As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public…

— Lawrence Lessig

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that…

— Daphne du Maurier

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we…

— Ronald Reagan

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won…

— Julia Child

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

— John Green

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

— Deepak Chopra

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

— Margaret Heffernan

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

— Charles Dickens

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had,…

— Lee Friedlander

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

— Anselm Kiefer

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

— Adora Svitak

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

— Plato

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far…

— Henri Nouwen

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies…

— Debbi Fields

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

— Gary Shilling

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

— William S. Burroughs

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means…

— Clay Shirky

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly…

— Roy Jenkins

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

— Sean M. Carroll