Ideas Quotes · Page 123

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have…

— Linus Pauling

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

— Walt Disney

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

— Jean-Luc Godard

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer…

— Daniel Kahneman

“If there are people in your organization who feel they are not free to suggest ideas, you lose.”

— Ed Catmull

I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.

— Julia Stiles

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

— Susie Wolff

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any…

— Hunter S. Thompson

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated…

— John Podhoretz

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will…

— Trey Songz

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you…

— Anne Waldman

Hart Hanson is one of the coolest, smartest producers I've ever worked for. He's very open to ideas, he says no when…

— Michaela Conlin

I was 18 years old when I did the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], so I was a freshman at NYU,…

— Julie Benz

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps,…

— Sam Vaknin

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work…

— Poppy Montgomery

The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the…

— Joshua Foer

Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken…

— J. C. Ryle

You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on…

— Joe Pass

I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised…

— Irvine Welsh

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the…

— Dean Wareham

And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could…

— Michael Emerson

The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but…

— John Locke

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

— Jon Foreman

No one can enslave you except your own thoughts and ideas. You were born to fly and hover in the highest of…

— Sandeep Shergill

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money…

— Andrea McLean

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

— Mortimer Adler

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why…

— John Baldessari

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

— David LaChapelle

There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws

— Charles Brockden Brown

The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new…

— Mark Walport

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

— Jack Welch

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with…

— Julie Taymor

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

— Johnny Vegas

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

— Carlos Castaneda

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first…

— Jeb Bush

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in…

— Patricia McConnell

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

— J. M. Coetzee

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

— Robert M. Hutchins