It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Ideas shape the course of history.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
~By Joan Didion ~
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
~By Heinrich Mann ~
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
~By Neil Young ~
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
~By Fidel Castro ~
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
~By David Seabury ~
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
~By James Robinson ~
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
~By Robert Redford ~
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
~By Jose Marti ~
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
~By Robert Bork ~
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
~By Willy Ley ~
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
~By Rollo May ~
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
~By Eric Brown ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
Ideas are the root of creation.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~By Andre Malraux ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
~By Zahi Hawass ~
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
~By Namie Amuro ~
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
~By Coco Chanel ~
All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.
~By Mark McGrath ~
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
~By Beck ~
A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
~By Jane Harman ~
I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
~By Leonard Orr ~
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
You get ideas from other people all the time.
~By Jared Harris ~
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
~By Gordon Brown ~
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
~By Simone Weil ~
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
~By Frederic Raphael ~
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
~By Billy Corgan ~
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
~By Bob Dylan ~
I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.
~By Sean William Scott ~
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
~By Hal David ~
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
~By Lal Bahadur Shastri ~
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
~By Howard Zinn ~
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
~By Isaac Watts ~
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
~By Michael Crichton ~
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
~By Steven Bochco ~
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
~By Jack Steinberger ~
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
~By Scott Reed ~
Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
~By Paul Harris ~
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
~By Leo Burnett ~
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
~By Dean Kamen ~
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
~By Edward Bond ~
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
~By Frank Scott ~
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
|