Ideas Quotes · Page 9

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

“Monday is a breakfast of ideas.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

Ideas have consequences.

— Richard M. Weaver

The best idea is the simplest.

— David Ogilvy

An idea never dies.

— Jeremy Limn

All beliefs are bald ideas.

— Francis Picabia

Art can articulate new ideas.

— Haris Pasovic

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The biggest challenge is to fulfill your own ideas about yourself.

— Judit Polgar

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

— Alessandro Manzoni

I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean.

— Min Jin Lee

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”

— Paul Bourget

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

— Thomas A. Edison

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

— Tim Roth

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

— Marcus Aurelius

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

— Anthony Head

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

— Mark Pincus

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

“I don't start riots. I start ideas, influence thought, and incite intelligent actions.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

— Randy Sandke

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

— Don DeLillo

Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea…

— Jack Johnson

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to…

— Nate Robinson

Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the…

— David Hockney

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can…

— Wilkie Collins

My mom always used to tell me, "Do what you love and be kind." And I discovered video at a very early…

— Jason Silva

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and…

— Nicolas Cage

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth,…

— George Edward Woodberry

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're…

— Robert Greene

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

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

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

— Taika Waititi

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

— Fernando Pessoa

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

I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go…

— Steven Johnson