Ideas Quotes

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.