Best 15702 quotes in «ideas quotes» category

And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.

An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.

Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and feel for the substance of jazz reveal why he is an exceptional artist.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.