Ideas Quotes · Page 227

There are creative ways to create pathways to sufficiency for families in need. To do so, we need to work together to…

— Charlie Baker

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.

— Ludwig Goransson

I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of…

— Jørgen Leth

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from…

— Jasper Johns

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

— Morgan Spurlock

I'm a really big fan of Monique Heart. I always think she has some really creative ideas.

— Manila Luzon

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

— Scott Derrickson

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at…

— Jo Nesbo

As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and…

— Barack Obama

There are so many actors that I've worked with that I'd like to work with again and there are so many girls.…

— Emily Browning

In years past, to keep their men close, women would wear a ring and bear children. It doesn't work like that today.…

— Guillaume Musso

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some…

— William Shatner

I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe…

— Esha Gupta

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he…

— Jason Schwartzman

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative.…

— David Cross

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to…

— Arjun Rampal

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were…

— Daniel Handler

I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of…

— Noam Chomsky

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,…

— Keith Carter

It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust.…

— George H. Smith

You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just…

— Bryan Singer

I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It…

— Eugene Puryear

“It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.”

— Jan Kaplicky

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Immanuel Kant

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would…

— Matthew Crawford

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in…

— Jay Baruchel

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

— Jack Kemp

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans.…

— John C. Parkin

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up…

— J. J. Abrams

I remember my parents quarrelling. They would talk as if they were against each other's ideas about Trotsky, but it was just…

— Maria de Medeiros

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

— Dorothy Height

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

— Edward Tufte

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

— Lyn Hejinian

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

— Jean Anouilh

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

— Anonymous