Ideas Quotes · Page 193

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

— Enya

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

— Peter O'Toole

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm…

— Nina Nesbitt

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

— William James

We can exchange ideas with each other. Learn from each other and become better!!

— Glen Rambharack

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

— Ernie J Zelinski

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

— George W. Bush

“To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality…

— Sergio Chejfec

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar…

— Johannes Kepler

I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that…

— George Michael

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they…

— Scott McCloud

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a…

— Edwin Catmull

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of…

— Amiri Baraka

More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of…

— Jim Goad

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want…

— Susan Jacoby

I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.…

— Stephen King

I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point.…

— Charlie Brooker

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive…

— Edward Boyden

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a…

— Leszek Kolakowski

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to…

— Harvey Fierstein

(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and…

— Amitav Ghosh

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

— Tucker Carlson

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

— Joel Greenblatt

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

— Atul Gawande

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are…

— Mike Huckabee

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

— George MacDonald

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

— Maxwell Maltz

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

— Diplo

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

— Lionel Barber

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

— Neil Gaiman

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

— Liz Phair

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right…

— Diane Johnson

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from…

— Arlo Guthrie

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester