Ideas Quotes · Page 283

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to…

— Noma Bar

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

— Lord Byron

I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking…

— Charli XCX

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

— Marshall Cook

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

— John Poindexter

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as…

— Adnan Sami

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

— Gordon S. Wood

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

— David Letterman

You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply…

— Ian Bogost

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do…

— Susan Blackmore

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet…

— Norman Rockwell

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is…

— Mark Twain

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light…

— Stephen King

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty -…

— Guido Palau

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…

— Sam Harris

To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody…

— Anonymous

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary…

— Adam Smith

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear…

— Fernando Pessoa

The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and…

— Taika Waititi

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good…

— Linus Pauling

Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Ideas come from people. Therefore, people are more important than ideas. Why are we confused about this? Because too many of us…

— Ed Catmull

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

— Judd Apatow

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

— Mark Rylance

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

— John Lydon

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make…

— Vivienne Westwood

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

— Nancy Gibbs

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

— Mitch Horowitz

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

— Derek Sivers

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

— Rob Hopkins

The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on…

— Anonymous

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

— Sara Maitland

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

— Madonna Ciccone

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

— Virginia Foxx