Ideas Quotes

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

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.

The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Ideas shape the course of history.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

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.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Ideas are the root of creation.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.