Ideas Quotes

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
Benjamin Carson

Real, Wrong, Talk

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

Made, Poet, Permanent

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

Good, Satisfied, Thousand

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine

Fight, Times, Newspapers

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy

Simple, Feelings, Simplicity

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead

Yourself, Others, Personal

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead

Almost, Aspect, Produced

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
Michael Bloomberg

Today, Focus, Big

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer

Change, Science, Important

The last people with any ideas are young people.
Vivienne Westwood

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Angry, Feeling

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

Power, Writing, Thinking

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
Ralph Fiennes

Talk, Stuff, Odd

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman

Pretty, Off, Artist

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon

Work, Men, Fear

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.
William J. Clinton

America, Dream, American

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes

Power, May, Either

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
David Mamet

Time, Bad, Saying

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
Tucker Carlson

Nice, Challenge, Around

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Alexander McQueen

Find, Shows, Compliment

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman

Change, Until, Fresh

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Science, Dead, Cemetery

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Good, Wait

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
Peter Singer

Life, Live, Looking

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
Tommy Chong

Happy, Brain, Spirit

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

Truth, Run, Dreadful

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont

Simple, Lie, Minds

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.
Jacqueline Bisset

Done, Wants, Director

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.
Jacqueline Bisset

End, Done, Learned

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne

Government, Society, Simple

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