Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services — Raphael
I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who… — Ian MacKaye
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz.… — Ian MacKaye
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying.… — Ian MacKaye
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean… — John le Carre
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century… — Wesley Clark
I think we should be very clear on this… this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment… It was the idea that people… — Wesley Clark
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the… — Samuel R. Delany
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to… — Philip Roth
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge… — Bernard Malamud
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole… — Beverly Johnson
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag… — Saul Bellow
Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck… — Mike Royko
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some… — Elena Kagan
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The… — Orison Swett Marden
The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white. — James A. Baldwin
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk

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