Quotes about ideas
ideas tasks absolutism
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
ideas newspapers cemetery
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
ideas people relaxation
You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that. Nelson Mandela
ideas people racism
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.
ideas insane-person action
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like Nellie Bly
ideas people film
I love the idea of people being themselves in films. Neill Blomkamp
ideas interesting fiction
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.
ideas want doe
When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ” Neko Case
ideas waste awesomeness
We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
ideas waiting trying
I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come. Neil Young
ideas young get-away
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
ideas possessed
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
ideas laughing scared
I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself. R. L. Stine
ideas too-much way
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. Mike Huckabee
ideas attractive shows
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. Nic Pizzolatto
ideas firsts ifs
If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on. Niall Horan
ideas people new-ideas
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it. Neville Marriner
ideas political would-be
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. Newt Gingrich
ideas accepting something-new
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. Nhat Hanh
ideas analysis abstract
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed. Noam Chomsky
ideas imbeciles
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
ideas waiting helping
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. John Ashcroft
ideas rooms enough
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea— John Ashbery
ideas done shapes
I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own. Georgia O'Keeffe
ideas track long
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
ideas campaigns littles
So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters. Gerald R. Ford
ideas danger attraction
You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas... Jim Holt
ideas want heritage
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside. Jim DeMint
ideas facts one-thing
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. Jiddu Krishnamurti
ideas illusion deceiving
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
ideas mind conflict
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.
ideas people groups
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
ideas silence listening
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate