Ideas Quotes · Page 293

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

— Jeanette Winterson

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

— Theodor Reik

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

— Barack Obama

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

— Daniel H. Pink

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

— William Hull

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

— Susan B. Anthony

Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then…

— Willis Harman

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or…

— Les Dawson

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind…

— Joseph Addison

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function…

— Bernard Beckett

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from…

— Sam Claflin

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on…

— Robin Williams

I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that…

— Devon Monk

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for…

— Stella Adler

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what…

— Jim Lehrer

If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see…

— Wilhelm Wundt

You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there.…

— Rainbow Rowell

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get…

— Anais Nin

...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,…

— Janet Frame

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

— Ken Loach

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

Netflix is looking for interesting ideas from interesting creators. They really want to help me make the show I want to make.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

— Tarsem Singh

“Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.”

— Bryant McGill

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future…

— Victoria Moran

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you…

— Freddie Gibbs

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

— Jack Kingston

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

— John D. Rockefeller

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up…

— Niall Horan

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them…

— Angela Yee

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a…

— John Waters

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

— George Carlin

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

— Brian Eno