Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea. — Thomas Manss
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an… — Thomas Jefferson
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies. — Alex Kozinski
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the… — John H. McWhorter
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is… — Zachary Taylor
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer,… — Alan Robinson
Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. — Robert H. Schuller
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. — Ray Kurzweil
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them. — Thomas A. Edison
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. — Samuel Johnson
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more… — Warren Buffett
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days.… — Unknown Author
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle… — Joseph Campbell
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that… — Milan Kundera
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. — Marguerite Young
I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased,… — Thomas Carper
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern… — Adam Arkin
An idea on paper to a reality in large part. — Tom Ridge
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it… — John F. Kennedy
We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come. — John Boehner
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the… — Pierre de Coubertin
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated .… — Ellen Glasgow

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