Idea Quotes

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Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the… — E. Lockhart
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds… — Wes Anderson
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families… — Ernest Hemingway
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not… — Peter Zumthor
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a… — Daniel Libeskind
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind
No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an… — Nelson Mandela
I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no… — Kim Wilde
That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet, — LeBron James
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,… — Maximilien Robespierre
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute… — Andrei Tarkovsky
No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. — Manmohan Singh
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before… — Fernando Pessoa
For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the Americans,… — Osama bin Laden
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza]… — Moshe Dayan
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… — Guillaume Apollinaire
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable… — Antonin Artaud
A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then… — Donny Deutsch
It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are… — Brooks Atkinson
How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is… — Elliot Easton
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary… — Tom Stoppard
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles… — Theodore Parker
Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear… — George Burns
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar

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