Idea Quotes

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.