Quotes about ideas
ideas focus language
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify. Clayton Christensen
ideas psychology done
The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. Daniel Kahneman
ideas slow-down ifs
If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.
ideas assuming problem
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
ideas giving people
If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.
ideas feelings intuition
Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.
ideas obsession obscene
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. D. H. Lawrence
ideas self bird
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.
ideas evil morality
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
ideas promise stories
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. Cristina Saralegui
ideas skepticism suspicion
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. Cullen Hightower
ideas lawyer wanted
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea Constance Baker Motley
ideas people focus
It's hard to get people to focus on one idea. Conor Oberst
ideas trying attention
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it. Clint Eastwood
ideas creative desire
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one? Clara Schumann
ideas alive immortal-life
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. Clarence Darrow
ideas cathedrals inherit-the-wind
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
ideas essentials failing
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. Daniel Day-Lewis
ideas two giving
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other. Daniel Dennett
ideas people tradition
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
ideas trying hard-to-handle
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. Dan Colen
ideas everything-happens-for-a-reason agency
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. Dan Brown
ideas one-day today
the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
ideas mind ive-learned
I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.
ideas roots president
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything. David Frum
ideas care want
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
ideas
I like the idea of R-rated franchises. David Fincher
ideas people professionalism
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
ideas people trying
My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea. David Foster Wallace
ideas stories reader
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
ideas luxury acting
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. David Chipperfield
ideas historical criticism
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
ideas revolution invention
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. David Cronenberg