Ideas Quotes · Page 252

On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the…

— Virchand Gandhi

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

— Shunryu Suzuki

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

— Svetlana Alexievich

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

— Garry Winogrand

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

— Andy Partridge

Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.

— Patricia Field

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

— Samuel West

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)…

— Seth Shostak

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas…

— Frederick Lenz

He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I…

— Lloyd Alexander

The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot…

— Steve Rubel

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away,…

— Frederick Lenz

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has…

— Howard Gardner

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea…

— Jane Horrocks

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the…

— H. G. Wells

What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…

— Swami Vivekananda

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been…

— Ava DuVernay

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.…

— Thomas Merton

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— Richard Dawkins

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the…

— Chuck Close

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

— Abigail Johnson

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

— Jean Dieudonne

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

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

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

— Jamie Hewlett

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

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

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

— Binyavanga Wainaina

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

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

— Peggy Orenstein

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size… Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,

— Satoru Iwata

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

— Akiva Goldsman

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and…

— Elliott Colla