Ideas Quotes · Page 299

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot…

— C. S. Lewis

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

— George Bernard Shaw

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

— John Cleese

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel…

— Stephen King

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than…

— Daniel Radcliffe

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my…

— Nick Valensi

I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal…

— Michael Fassbender

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

— Anonymous

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to…

— Elie Saab

I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those…

— Kenneth Arrow

I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested.…

— Chris Matthews

This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to…

— Rana el Kaliouby

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is old, exciting, innovative, and new. There are many ideas that are old,…

— Donald Rumsfeld

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains…

— Idries Shah

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust…

— H. G. Wells

I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing.…

— Taraka Larson

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it…

— Marcel Proust

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.…

— Aaron Zigman

Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values…

— Dana Perino

The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government,…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have…

— S. I. Hayakawa

We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the…

— Glenn McQuaid

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of…

— Joe Maddon

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

— James Hillman

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

— Louis J. Freeh

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.

— Will Smith

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

— Laura Ashley

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in…

— Saul Bellow

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

— Kelli O'Hara

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

— John Mayer

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

— Anonymous

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.

— David Linley

“...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”

— Marcel Proust

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person…

— Maajid Nawaz

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

— Dan Bejar

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow