My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

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

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

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.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

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

I could have been a cult writer if I’d kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

The mainstream is always under attack.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

And one more thing.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

I’m mainstream.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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