Ideas Quotes · Page 95

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

— Josiah Royce

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

— Benjamin Franklin

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

— Antonio Tabucchi

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years

— Eric Carle

In art one idea is as good as another.

— Willem de Kooning

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

— Buddhadasa

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

— Eugene Delacroix

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

— Brian Schweitzer

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

— Mike Svob

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

— Randy Sandke

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

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love…

— Kevin DeYoung

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

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

— Jeff Koons

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do…

— Karl Radek

The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change…

— Jeanne DuPrau

The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred… the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse…

— Ralph Raico

I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City…

— Cassandra Clare

Everything is always coming from something else. Even if you create something, it has to be inspired by something else. If you…

— Gza

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking…

— Jane Goodall

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea…

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves…

— Sam Keen

There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based…

— Dan Crenshaw

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,…

— Joshua Ferris

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions…

— Julia Stiles

If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality…

— Mark Millar

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an…

— Brene Brown

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

— Philip K. Dick

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

— Anonymous

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

— Milton Glaser

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

— James Arthur

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

— Barack Obama

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

— Justin Chancellor