Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They… — Dave Barry
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered… — Robert Winston
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon… — Susie Orbach
Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. — William Bernbach
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. — Henri Matisse
Count on big lines to express your ideas. — Robert Henri
All good ideas arrive by chance. — Max Ernst
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.… — Nolan Bushnell
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This… — Irving Kristol
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. — Midge Decter
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born
An idea is something that won't work unless you do. — Thomas A. Edison
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. — Paul Valery
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. — Eric Hoffer
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. — Virginia Woolf
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if… — Bruce Schneier
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things. — Michael Dell
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus
'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is… — Alan Cohen
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate… — Tony Robbins
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. — Bertrand Russell

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