Ideas Quotes

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

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

A good artist has less time than ideas.

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

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.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.