Ideas Quotes · Page 205

Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

— Andrew Mayne

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I…

— Anonymous

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

— Sri Aurobindo

Everyone has ideas about what we want for the country, but people need to vote to make that happen.

— Sarah Harding

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

— David J. Schwartz

“Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.”

— Tim Fargo

It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love…

— Gerard Way

“Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.”

— Barbara Sher

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to…

— Benjamin Graham

The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks…

— Wendell Pierce

I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where…

— Margaret Cho

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid…

— Terry Eagleton

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the…

— E. O. Wilson

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not…

— Seth

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain…

— Michael Wolff

Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's…

— Stephen Colbert

And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist…

— Blake Lively

In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States…

— King Hussein I

I love Thanksgiving. I truly do. Every last thing about it is wonderful. I love getting together with family and friends. I…

— Bill Richardson

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents…

— George B. Hartzog Jr

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda…

— Adolf Hitler

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

— Christopher Reeve

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

— Cesar Pelli

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger…

— Shelley Hennig

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

— Mark Twain

My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

— Lapo Elkann

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

— Ludwig von Mises

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

— George Santayana

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry…

— David McCullough

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

— Samantha Shannon

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

— Confucius

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea…

— Agatha Christie

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

— Jack Welch

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside…

— John Locke

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

— Jeff Smith

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea…

— Anonymous