Ideas Quotes · Page 332

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

— Barry Lyga

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

— Theaster Gates

“It sounds like a terrible idea,” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.”

— R.A. Spratt

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

— Martin Fowler

“When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).”

— Oli Anderson

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

— John Zerzan

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

— Seth Godin

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental…

— Thomas Huxley

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We…

— Amy Lee

Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into…

— Ellen Ullman

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because…

— Diane Wakoski

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable…

— Stephen Levine

If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move…

— Nadia Comaneci

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I…

— M. Ward

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,…

— Henry David Thoreau

According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq…

— Richard Armitage

And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate…

— Rajneesh

It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without…

— John Stuart Mill

Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into…

— Judith Butler

If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make…

— Dan Ariely

I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an…

— Amy Poehler

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what…

— Haruki Murakami

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were…

— Carlos Castaneda

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is…

— S. E. Hinton

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they…

— Ben Whishaw

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them…

— Jeremy Grantham

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it…

— Natalie Goldberg

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

— Joel Embiid

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

— John Anthony West

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

— James Hillman

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that…

— Pat Metheny

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

— Alexa Chung

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No…

— Taylor Swift

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

— Henry James

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

— Wole Soyinka

I want to mix fresh and old-school ideas to create something Indian at heart but of an international standard.

— Zayed Khan

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't…

— Samuel Barber

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

— Tim Bray

“I have a million thoughts in my head. And if I am able to adequately put a sentence to any of them…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough