Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
~By William Pollard ~
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
~By David Brooks ~
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
~By Charles Eames ~
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
~By Jasper Johns ~
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.
~By Art Linkletter ~
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.
~By Jeffery Veen ~
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.
~By Philip Greenspun ~
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
~By Paul Kagame ~
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
~By Bruce Campbell ~
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
~By Rick Perry ~
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
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 ~
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
~By Jack Kilby ~
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
~By Branch Rickey ~
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
~By Dennis Prager ~
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
~By Tony Visconti ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
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 ~
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
~By John Cleese ~
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
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 ~
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
~By Jamie Oliver ~
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~By Mark Rothko ~
Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
~By James Gunn ~
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
~By Kurt Masur ~
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
~By Richard King ~
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
~By Guy Debord ~
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
~By Arnold Newman ~
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 ~
One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
~By Bill Nelson ~
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~By Charles Kettering ~
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
~By Daniel Smith ~
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
~By Bill Owens ~
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
~By Louis Aragon ~
In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
~By Donald Judd ~
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
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 ~
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
~By James Hillman ~
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 ~
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~By H. G. Wells ~
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
~By Horst Koehler ~
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
~By Paul Valery ~
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
~By Claude M. Bristol ~
I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
~By Helen Keller ~
Ideas are the root of creation.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
~By Charles Eames ~
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
~By Lou Gramm ~
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 ~
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
~By Dizzy Gillespie ~
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
~By Alfred Whitney Griswold ~
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
~By Amanda Burton ~
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
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 ~
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
~By David Seabury ~
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
~By William Whewell ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
~By Frank Darabont ~
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
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