Ideas Quotes · Page 243

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

— Steven Johnson

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

— J Harlen Bretz

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me…

— Iliza Shlesinger

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

— Constance Baker Motley

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

— Moby

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

— Daniel Kahneman

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

— Art Buchwald

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be…

— Malala Yousafzai

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world…

— Julia Leigh

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd…

— Jennifer Connelly

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if…

— Kurt Cobain

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea…

— Frederick Lenz

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand…

— Wesley Morris

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we…

— Nancy Etcoff

Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small…

— Patricia Briggs

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis…

— John Crowe Ransom

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an…

— J. P. Donleavy

The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way…

— Kevin Canty

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with…

— Kacey Musgraves

“Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover…

— Henry Ford

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever…

— Herman Melville

Robin Williams is great; it's just like having a conversation when you're doing a scene with him really. It's just so relaxed…

— Freddie Highmore

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

— Jacques Ellul

It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold…

— Ava Max

My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.

— Cary Fukunaga

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life…

— James Gunn

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try…

— Albert Einstein

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

— Jim Steranko

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

— Pliny the Younger

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

— Rob Delaney

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

— Marina Abramovic

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea…

— Cyril Connolly

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

— Mark Twain

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

— Andy Stanley

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

— Dan Crenshaw