Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is “bold, exciting, innovative, and new.” There are many ideas that are “bold, exciting, innovative and new,” but also foolish.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

The most important thing is to have a great idea and to work hard.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

We cannot be sure that our ideas about the cosmos are complete.

I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own.

The idea that you can’t be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

You have to be open to new ideas and experiences.

Good ideas are not enough; you need to have the ability to execute them.

I want to represent the concept of ‘family’ and the idea of ‘togetherness’ in my work.

The idea of living a year based on the Bible seemed like a daunting and interesting challenge. It turned out to be both.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leaven them alone and they will soon be great.

Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case has a language of representative feelings

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.

I love the idea of exploring different worlds, whether it’s through reading or actually immersing myself in a new experience

I’m always open to new ideas, within reason

It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I don’t want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.

I have always observed that many of people usually or rather seldom refuse or avoid help even if someone is offering them the help in the right manner or in an ideal way.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it’s important to do things differently. In Britain, it’s not an issue

The idea that ‘if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave’ is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

I have no idea what I am talking about I’m trapped in this body and can’t get out

Don’t get any big ideas, They’re not gonna happen

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art

No matter what I’ve done, what I’ve tried to do, everybody says it can’t be done. And it’s continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas

The multiplicity of ideas is what I’m interested in

We’re producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I’m interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work

So we can’t go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea

An idea that is confident always looks masculine

I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous

I moved my studio to Palm Springs ’cause I don’t like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job… I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house… I don’t want to be in a studio where people can hear the music ’cause I don’t know what it is yet.

I Live Life With No Fear, Except For The Idea That One Day You Won’t Be Here

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today’s half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again – and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered..d

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureate.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

A society made up of individuals who were capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.

Respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.

Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people’s ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and such characteristics; but if he had such characteristics, He could not allow etc…His judgment of incompability, in fact, is based on a judgment of implications.

Great ideas originate in the muscles

valThe value of an idea lies in the using of it

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged

Perhaps I had to change my idea of what an insult sounds like.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

It’s really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

You have no idea how special this is to me.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

In life, the idea is to be happy.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

We have no idea how far it’s going to go.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone’s going to catch you.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

But logic is not all, one needs one’s heart to follow an idea.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn’t everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

Sometimes I have no idea what’s going on.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

f an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you’re laughin’ at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you’re going to, I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

I’m a member of no party, and have no ideology except a very old-fashioned one: liberty.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage, he was fully born.

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you’re not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere—unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype

People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal

Basically it’s the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they’re still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind ‘Dollhouse’, at least how it related to me because it’s something I was annoyed with at the time.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.

I have no idols. I respect hard work, dedication and competence”

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It’s so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

Paris is always a good idea.

The world is my idea.

Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas. Bring me big ideas to match our future.

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream — I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal — to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be

As a blind man has no idea of colours, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

The idea that we must choose between the method of “winning hearts and minds” and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

When I thought I had a good idea about something, I didn’t like being told no.

Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.

My ideas are of an indisputable logic; The only thing that makes me doubt is that they have not been applied previously

Without new ideas, success can become stale

Even though I’m only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who’s right and who’s wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I’m more of a person than a child—I feel I’m completely independent of others

Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.