Ideas Quotes · Page 256

“when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it ”

— Ellen Sabin

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

— Terry Pratchett

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

— Stephen Gardiner

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which…

— Margaret Anderson

Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

— David Ogilvy

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I hate the idea of owning a gun, but I love the idea of owning a cannon.

— Daniel Tosh

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground…

— Betsy DeVos

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing…

— Karl Popper

The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not…

— Anonymous

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the…

— Alain de Botton

Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts…

— Anonymous

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but…

— Anonymous

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not…

— Ziggy Marley

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one…

— Maxwell Maltz

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but…

— Edward Abbey

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists…

— Barack Obama

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than…

— Gloria Steinem

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires…

— Charles le Gai Eaton

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this…

— Aerin Lauder

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us…

— Barack Obama

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and…

— Steve Albini

And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small…

— John Flanagan

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

— John Wooden

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

— Sonia Sotomayor

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

— Rachel Joyce

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but…

— Steve Young

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

— Seth Godin

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

— Gustave Flaubert

The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.

— Jennifer Aniston

The most important lesson is to never get comfortable; always come up with new ideas; learn something new; try something new.

— Carmella

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

— Red McCombs

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

— Twyla Tharp

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

— Deepak Chopra

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

— Rana el Kaliouby

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

— Alan Moore

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think…

— Stephen King