It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
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 ~
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn't find a way to make it really fun. We've got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years.
~By Sid Meier ~
The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
~By Ben Stiller ~
All good ideas arrive by chance.
~By Max Ernst ~
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~By Edward Steichen ~
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
~By Henry Miller ~
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
~By John Podesta ~
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
~By John Osborne ~
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
~By John Cage ~
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.
~By Peter Weiss ~
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
~By Donna Tartt ~
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
~By John Thune ~
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
~By Jay Inslee ~
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
~By Julian Barbour ~
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
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 ~
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
~By Ted Nelson ~
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
~By Ted Koppel ~
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
~By Damon Albarn ~
I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
~By Lou Gramm ~
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
~By Don Marquis ~
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
~By John Hench ~
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
~By Isaac Watts ~
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
~By David Axelrod ~
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
~By Robert Collier ~
I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
~By Dave Navarro ~
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
~By Miles Davis ~
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
~By Alfred Whitney Griswold ~
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.
~By Antony Hewish ~
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
~By Ferdinand De Saussure ~
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.
~By Graham Kerr ~
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
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 ~
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 ~
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
~By Evita Peron ~
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 ~
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 ~
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
~By Francis Crick ~
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~By Hyman Rickover ~
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 ~
So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
~By Glenn Miller ~
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
~By Tina Brown ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~By Joichi Ito ~
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 ~
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
~By Georges Braque ~
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~By H. G. Wells ~
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
Ideas control the world.
~By James A. Garfield ~
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
~By David Bohm ~
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 ~
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
~By David O. Selznick ~
Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
~By Dave Davies ~
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
~By Patrick Geddes ~
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 ~
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
~By Pericles ~
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
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 ~
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
~By Pat Sajak ~
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
~By Seth Godin ~
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
~By Eric Morecambe ~
When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
~By Jean-Louis Trintignant ~
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
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 ~
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
~By Leo Burnett ~
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
~By Heinrich Mann ~
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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