Ideas Quotes · Page 319

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

— Baruch Spinoza

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

— Charles Kettering

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

— Frank Scott

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

— Richard Marshall

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

— William Kristol

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

— Jonathan Frakes

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make…

— Simon Sinek

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without…

— Justin Simien

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of…

— Steve Cosson

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just…

— Fred Saberhagen

Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body…

— Dennis Oppenheim

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing.…

— Tim Hetherington

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside…

— Richard Louv

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the…

— Michael Bloomberg

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea…

— Jon Stewart

American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened…

— Harrison Ford

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In…

— Jim Rohn

When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance…

— Ludivine Sagnier

Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate…

— Jacques Maritain

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly…

— George Burns

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one…

— Kevin Keck

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being…

— George Carlin

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wouldn't be able to date someone who had conflicting ideas on abortion, no. Because it's every woman's right to do whatever…

— Daisy Lowe

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

— Michael Craig-Martin

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

— Douglas Sirk

The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of…

— Peter Duesberg

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

— Geoff Mulgan

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

— Louise Erdrich

“In the age of connectedness the solution is to create ideas that people want to share.”

— Ajaz Ahmed

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

— Matisyahu

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

— Mick Taylor

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

— Blaine Hogan

“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.”

— Carl Sagan

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

— Hiro Murai