Ideas Quotes · Page 271

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

— Stanislaw Lem

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

— Quintilian

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

— Elbert Hubbard

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

— Douglas Wood

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down…

— Camilo Jose Cela

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take…

— Rupert Sheldrake

For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and…

— Erin McKean

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our…

— Yayoi Kusama

I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library…

— Ben Stein

One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with…

— Astra Taylor

It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position.…

— Malick Sidibe

I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade…

— Bradley Cooper

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were…

— Russell Brand

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for…

— Seymour Papert

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The…

— Burton Rascoe

Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a…

— Joy Reid

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will…

— Jeremy Silman

“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful…

— Dejan Stojanovic

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;…

— Carl Linnaeus

Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more…

— George Saunders

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

— Konosuke Matsushita

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's…

— Markus Zusak

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was…

— Haroon Mirza

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

— Bill Maher

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

— Robert Barry

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you…

— Brian Tracy

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

— John Stuart Mill

“Humanness is not only when you show compassion to people but also when you recognize their true worths beyond appearance.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

— William Feather

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

— Mark Messier

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

— Charlie Kaufman

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco