Ideas Quotes

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson

Between, Books, Bridges

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
Katy Perry

Work, Best, Done

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
Camille Paglia

Work, Time, American

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
Louis C. K.

Head, Full, Room

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey

Long, Down, Enough

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

Power, Poetry, Words

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard

Change, Travel, Deep

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp

Interested, Visual, Merely

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

Work, Enough, Said

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

Change, Idea, Progress

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

Music, Art, Emotional

Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.
Simon Mainwaring

Around, Start, Means

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.
Simon Mainwaring

Simple, Thinking, Around

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.
Simon Mainwaring

Trust, Hope, Thinking

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
Vivienne Westwood

Through, Possible, Effect

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering

Time, Place, Off

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts

Different, Thoughts, Point

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.
John Sununu

Good, Important, Lost

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
Rick Perry

Hope, Moving, Greatest

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
Sarah Bernhardt

Country, Born, Seems

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Order, Upset, Represent

Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley

War, Experience, Real

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton

Live, Defined, Virtual

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles

Power, Knowledge, Express

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Garrett Hardin

Change, Nothing, Human

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.
Anna Quindlen

Trust, Stupid, Yourself

Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield

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

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