Ideas Quotes · Page 132

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

— George MacDonald

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that…

— Michael Dell

“Ideas represent a wonderful manifestation of the functioning of the human mind.”

— Eraldo Banovac

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

— Moby

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,

— LeBron James

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

— Tim Blixseth

I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is…

— Erica Brown

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something…

— Michael Fassbender

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before…

— John F. Kennedy

This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She…

— Proclus

Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and…

— Ida Tarbell

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was…

— Christopher Hitchens

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We…

— Rush Limbaugh

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything…

— Shuler Hensley

“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It…

— Wilfred Trotter

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical…

— Peter Cheeke

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of…

— Milton Resnick

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder.…

— Pauline Oliveros

By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the…

— Billy Eichner

You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.”…

— Kim Severson

The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script and then you do the visual, you do…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic…

— Fritz Machlup

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

— Henry W. Bloch

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

— Anne McLellan

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

— A. J. McLean

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

— Scott Belsky

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

— Euripides

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

— John Rawls

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

I've farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes…

— Simon Sinek

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

— Zaha Hadid

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my…

— Tony Abbott