Ideas Quotes

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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. — Thomas A. Edison
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of… — Brit Marling
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I… — Paulina Porizkova
I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This… — Swami Vivekananda
Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic… — Gordon Cooper
We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas. — Paul Tournier
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our… — Laurie Davidson
'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life… — Unknown Author
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry. — Artie Shaw
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with… — John Carmack
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P D Ouspensky
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. — Louis Aragon
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the… — Aleister Crowley
Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.… — Charles Baudelaire
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind… — Philip Roth
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. — Henry Ward Beecher
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement… — Finley Peter Dunne
We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the… — Anne Frank
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help… — Mark Twain
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]. — Albert Einstein
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with… — Albert Einstein
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able… — Albert Einstein
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the… — Albert Einstein

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