Idea Quotes

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.