Ideas Quotes

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

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.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.