A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
~By David O. Selznick ~
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
~By Paul Farmer ~
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
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 ~
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
~By Willard Libby ~
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
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 ~
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
~By James Collins ~
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
~By Thurston Moore ~
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
~By Henry Hazlitt ~
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
~By James Cronin ~
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
~By Henry Reed ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
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 ~
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
~By Howard Aiken ~
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
~By George Eliot ~
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
~By Frank Scott ~
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
~By Edward de Bono ~
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
~By Les Paul ~
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 ~
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
~By Karl Kraus ~
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
~By Audre Lorde ~
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 ~
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
~By Joseph Stefano ~
Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.
~By Catherine O'Hara ~
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
~By Marcel Duchamp ~
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 ~
Ideas are more powerful than people.
~By Jim DeMint ~
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
~By John Forbes Nash, Jr. ~
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 ~
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
~By John Bonham ~
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
~By Jane Rule ~
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
~By Alex Chilton ~
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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 ~
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
~By Mark Rylance ~
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
~By Francis Picabia ~
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
~By Dave Sim ~
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
~By Frank Darabont ~
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
~By Miriam Beard ~
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
~By Helen Keller ~
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
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 ~
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
~By Trent Lott ~
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Ideas control the world.
~By James A. Garfield ~
When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
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 ~
Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
~By Joe Murray ~
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
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 ~
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
~By Paul Kagame ~
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
~By Harvey S. Firestone ~
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 ~
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
~By William Feather ~
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