Ideas Quotes · Page 276

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

— Ken Robinson

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six…

— Anonymous

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

— Kehinde Wiley

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same…

— Andrew Vachss

“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

— Billy Corgan

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to…

— Russell Simmons

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of…

— Elisabeth Elliot

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are.…

— Tom Clancy

Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop…

— Bruce Lee

It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just…

— Zadie Smith

I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there.…

— Charles Krauthammer

I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is…

— Max Tundra

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before -…

— Lennart Nilsson

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education…

— Stephen Downes

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping…

— Lamar Alexander

“I told you that my idea was great." "They usually are." "Holy [crap]. Did you just admit that?" "Maybe I did." "Uh-huh,…

— J. Lynn

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of…

— George Orwell

“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing…

— Anonymous

Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible…

— Jenna Black

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs…

— John Dos Passos

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with…

— Malcolm Gladwell

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,…

— Joshua Ferris

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

— Bozoma Saint John

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

— Jack Welch

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new…

— Henry Mancini

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great…

— Sam Walton

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work…

— Rebecca Miller

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

— Harvey Mackay

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be…

— Carolina Herrera

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'.

— Narendra Modi

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

— Bodhidharma

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

— Scott D. Anthony

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or…

— Amy Ryan

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

— Albert Einstein

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.

— Sean McDermott