Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Martin

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Chuck Mangione

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

Alfred de Musset

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Alfred Hitchcock

Ideas come from everything

Alfred Hitchcock

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfie Kohn

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

Amy Seimetz

I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

Amy Sedaris

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Amy Sedaris

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

Amy Sedaris

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

Amy Sedaris

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Amiri Baraka

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

Alphonse Karr

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Anthony Bourdain

Without new ideas success can become stale

Anthony Bourdain

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Andy Rooney

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

Andy Rooney

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

Andy Stanley

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

Andy Stanley

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Andy Warhol

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Andy Warhol

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Andy Warhol

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

Andy Warhol

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Andy Warhol

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Andrew O'Hagan

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andre Breton

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Andre Gide

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

Andre Gide

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Ann Patchett

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Anatole France

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Alvin Toffler

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Alton Brown

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.