Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. — Debbi Fields
I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream.… — Walter Bradford Cannon
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance… — Margaret Bourke-White
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. — Charles Kettering
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath,… — Henry Moore
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots… — Robert Walpole
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in… — Henry Ford
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the… — Terry Rossio
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement… — Frank B. Salisbury
The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't… — Chip Wilson
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. — Ludwig von Mises
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. — Thomas Sankara
As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people… — Seth Godin
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds… — Ray Bradbury
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and… — Jeffrey Shallit
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people… — John O'Donohue
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense… — Rachel Naomi Remen
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain… — Thomas Merton

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