Ideas Quotes · Page 61

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

— William James

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.

— Taylor York

“...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.”

— Gregory Benford

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

— Marc Lamont Hill

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

— Thomas Bangalter

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

— Jack Welch

“Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea”

— Stewart Friedman

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

— Trey Parker

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas…

— Graeme Simsion

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

— Stephen Vizinczey

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

— Carla Bruni

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

— Robert Crumb

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

— Alexander Herzen

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

— Michael Bloomberg

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

— Mark V. Hurd

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas…

— Penn Jillette

Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper…

— Watchman Nee

We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it…

— Deeyah Khan

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as…

— Harvey Dunn

For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and…

— Jay Roach

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit…

— Anne Lamott

I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then…

— Chris Hemsworth

If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we…

— Russell Kirk

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of…

— Swami Vivekananda

In a normal family, a surprise means presents, cake and a party. For me ? I had no idea. And my family,…

— Christopher Titus

I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or…

— Florence Welch

Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will,…

— Fidel Castro

I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at…

— David Nicholls

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as…

— Swami Vivekananda

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,…

— John Maus

“I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

— Bernard Malamud

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

— Michael Eisner

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

— Lewis Black

I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.

— Liana Liberato

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

— Neville Marriner

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

— Don Meyer