Ideas Quotes · Page 232

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

— Anonymous

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

— Joseph Conrad

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

— Jamie Hewlett

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you…

— V. S. Naipaul

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

— Theodore Levitt

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you…

— Van Jones

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete…

— Thom Mayne

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions…

— Peter Singer

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already…

— Douglas Kennedy

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas,…

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as…

— John Thune

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I…

— T. Harv Eker

Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for…

— Terry Pratchett

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for…

— Anonymous

Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists…

— Anita Moorjani

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive…

— Fred Edwords

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of…

— Anonymous

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

“Sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas and sometimes I have colossally bad ideas.”

— Melanie Cellier

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm…

— Tim Hetherington

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

— Sol LeWitt

I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.

— Sailor Jerry

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

— Steve Martin

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools…

— John Keats

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it…

— Jacob Bronowski

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

— Phil Donahue

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

— Hank Green

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on…

— Julius Genachowski

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't…

— Jane Goodall

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev