Ideas Quotes · Page 197

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

— Clarence Darrow

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

— Cheryl Strayed

Maurizio is very clear with his ideas and that's good for me because I run, press high and recover the ball.

— Pedro

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

— Adam Grant

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

— Michael Newdow

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

— Jerry Saltz

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

— John Darnielle

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would…

— Lucas Cruikshank

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this…

— Ludivine Sagnier

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It…

— David Mamet

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's…

— Tom Peters

Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself…

— Matthew Kahn

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which…

— David Cross

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“If you have an idea, execute it today itself, Else you may wake up tomorrow and find that someone else has already…

— Jiten Bhatt

My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it.…

— Eddie Izzard

Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was…

— Amy Tan

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something…

— Oswald Chambers

The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive.…

— Dutch Robinson

“We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we…

— Samuel Butler

Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only…

— Harmony Korine

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically…

— Glenn Danzig

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.

— Dan Crenshaw

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the…

— David Hume

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

— Carl Jung

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

— David Chipperfield

I get to share ideas with some of the smartest people in conservative politics.

— Michael Caputo

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

— Daryl Hannah

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

— Paulo Coelho

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.

— Laura Fitton

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

— Linus Pauling

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

— Samuel Johnson

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

— Ian MacKaye

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

— Max Lerner

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets…

— Conor McPherson

I just want to follow my own ideas, and I'm uncomfortable doing it any other way.

— Alex G