Quotes about ideas
ideas creative would-be
I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas. Robert Stromberg
ideas poor sponsors
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried. Robert Townsend
ideas opposition
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
ideas bizarre reinvention
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. Robert Smith
ideas pay fool
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
ideas interesting momentum
Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. Robert Rauschenberg
ideas interesting assistants
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
ideas materials
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.
ideas people whole
The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy Robert Plant
ideas policy repression
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. Robert M. Hutchins
ideas errors people
A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One. Satya Nadella
ideas lazy feels
I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant. Sasha Grey
ideas continents five
'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had. Sanjeev Bhaskar
ideas sunflower dozen
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.... Vincent Van Gogh
ideas peculiar expected
The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected. Vladimir Lenin
ideas mind recognition
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
ideas nonfiction
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
ideas ego who-you-are
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you. Wayne Dyer
ideas progress status-quo
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe Walter Benjamin
ideas wings nails
Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any. Virginia Woolf
ideas technique
Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques. William Bernbach
ideas sublime execution
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. William Blake
ideas progress scientist
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed. Werner Heisenberg
ideas fundamentals neutrons
The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
ideas fundamentals atoms
The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
ideas pie forever
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change. Wayne Thiebaud
ideas romance hard
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. Wallis Simpson
ideas documentaries portraits
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. Walker Evans
ideas feelings action
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time. Wallace Stegner
ideas mind desire
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical. Roger Ebert
ideas air exception
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one. Rod McKuen
ideas born heard
Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Rod Serling
ideas scary earth
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.