ideas quotes

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

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

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

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

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.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

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.

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

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.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

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

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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

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

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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

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.

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

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.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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.

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

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.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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.

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

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

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.

College isn’t the place to go for 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.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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

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.

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

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

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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

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

The last people with any ideas are young people.

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

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.