Quotes about ideas
ideas interesting people
I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas. Robin Ince
ideas coping-mechanisms knowing
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
ideas long understanding
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it. Robert Winston
ideas trying shooting
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better. Robert Rodriguez
ideas problem dangerous
In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. Robert Reich
ideas world painting
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. Robert Motherwell
ideas stupidity path
There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage. Robert Musil
ideas easy
Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute. Robert E. Lee
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 world language
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head Robert Smithson
ideas giving way
My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence. Robert Schumann
ideas bizarre reinvention
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. Robert Smith
ideas joy division
I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
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 machines becoming
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
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 remember imagine
You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was. Robert Plant
ideas creating healthy
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
ideas people whole
The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy
ideas policy repression
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. Robert M. Hutchins
ideas america long
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
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 creating use
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. Sarah Zettel
ideas belief dangerous
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. Sarah Vowell
ideas excuse funding
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. Sarah Lacy
ideas way strategy
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process. Sarah Kay
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 remembrance mind
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place. Samuel Johnson