Ideas Quotes

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy, Anxiety, Among

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.
Marco Rubio

Remember, Afraid, Against

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky

Sleep, Green, Colorless

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
Anna Quindlen

Made, Around, Pizza

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone

Freedom, Experience, Sympathy

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

Nature, Human, Find

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina

Small, Cannot, Worth

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.
Heidi Klum

Learn, Open, Sharing

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
Shia LaBeouf

Government, Future, Knowledge

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Roger von Oech

Hard, Two, Easy

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
Russell Means

Education, Government, Thinking

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau

Life, Design, Seems

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
Brian Eno

Music, Play, Working

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian Eno

Religion, Yourself, Strong

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
Brian Eno

Celebrity, Evolve, Formed

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran

Obsessions, Aggregate, Represents

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch

Best, Greatest, Find

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
King Hussein I

God, Truth, Help

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Edward Weston

Age, Mind, Down

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike

Nature, Power, Learning

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.
Marco Rubio

Big, Question, Serve

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
Daniel Radcliffe

Character, Put, Getting

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger

Life, Happiness, Courage

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.
Tyra Banks

Show, Loved, Actually

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
Billy Corgan

Nothing, Everybody, Band

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Alive, Chemistry, Band

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.
Simon Mainwaring

Thinking, Together, Different

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
Dave Eggers

Work, Busy, Same

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Idea, Among, Isolated

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thoughts, Original, Divine

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