Ideas Quotes

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

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.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.