Famous Quotes & Sayings

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Dean Ornish

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

Ricky Gervais

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

Brian De Palma

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Brian Eno

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

Brian Eno

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Brian Eno

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

Brian Eno

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Brian Eno

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

Brian Eno

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Brian Eno

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Bret Easton Ellis

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Bram Cohen

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Bram Cohen

Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

Brandi Chastain

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

Brandon Boyd

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Bram Stoker

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Booker T. Washington

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

Booker T. Washington

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Bobby Sands

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

David Nicholls

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

Edward Zwick

And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?

Edward Zwick

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

Abdullah Ocalan

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

Abdul Kalam

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.