Ideas Quotes · Page 201

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

— Anna Held

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no…

— Ilona Andrews

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the…

— Sidney Sheldon

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

— Rene Descartes

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

— Bernard Beckett

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very…

— Barbara Sukowa

“Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

— Eckhart Tolle

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our…

— Peter Rollins

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot…

— Scooter Braun

Are you going to get offended when someone says something that is counter to your worldview? I think you need to be…

— Tennys Sandgren

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was…

— Lucy Hale

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded…

— Michael Helm

Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling…

— John Mackey

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always…

— James S.A. Corey

I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the…

— Squarepusher

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was…

— Reif Larsen

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from…

— Edward Snowden

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that…

— Aziz Ansari

One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in…

— Seymour Papert

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not…

— Alice Hoffman

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;…

— Anonymous

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

— Lance Armstrong

We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is…

— Ally Brooke

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

— Bertrand Russell

There are so many hard-wired ideas we've grown up with that we're now realizing are unacceptable.

— Asher Keddie

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

— John Steinbeck

An intelligent person is open-minded enough to thoughtfully consider an idea, even if they do not immediately agree with it.

— Anonymous

Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.

— Steve Harris

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of…

— Deborah Tannen

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

— Ralph H. Baer

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

— Robert Genn

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

— Peter Mandelson

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

— Grant Wood

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.

— Rodney Brooks

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

— T.I

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can…

— Rick Heinrichs

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

— George W. Crane