It’s not about the idea, it’s about the execution.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

We are a product of our ideas.

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.