In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

A strong and active mind can generate a variety of new ideas.

But I love the idea – whether it’s in my work or where I live – exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

I guess I just don’t see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of ‘our team’s better than yours’ – it’s a high school idea. My kids don’t see those dividing lines, and I don’t want to either.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

The idea came like a flash of lightning, and in an instant, the entire concept was revealed.

The best ideas come from being able to take risks.

The best ideas come from collaboration.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Being open to new experiences and ideas is a great way to expand your horizons.

I literally have no idea what’s to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

I’ve always been interested in music as a way of expressing ideas, feelings, and emotions.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

You need to always have a vision and strategy. It’s not just about having money, but about having an idea.

You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Each project I undertake is an opportunity to explore new ideas.

Powerful ideas are just in your pocket.

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

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.

The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

I was just reading about Paul Simon in ‘Uncut’, and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it’s interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the idea of the “general welfare.” One consequence must be, to enlarge the sphere of discretion allotted to the executive magistrate… The other consequence would be, that of an excessive augmentation of the offices, honors, and emoluments, depending on the executive will.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it’s really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there’s been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can’t pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It’s always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity… we’re 1 people.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise, you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

It’s weird, because the ideas in my songs aren’t controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what’s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don’t think they know. And I can’t see any authority on the horizon that’s got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren’t going for the music.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

I am a promoter of ideas. I have to sell ideas that will be realized by others.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision—the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

The best ideas have to win.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I don’t believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, “At least I’m living; at least I’m doing something. I’m making some contribution.” It’s just psychological.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

You can’t kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

Knowledge by itself is not power, but it holds the potential for power if we use it a s a guide for action. Truth will always be defeated by tyranny unless the people are willing to step forward and put their lives into the battle. The future belongs, not to ideas, but to people who act on those ideas.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Everything begins with an idea

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you’ve got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

It was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight!

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through … such is the basic method of leadership.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with, and a sense of humor and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilize friends around you. And I love that.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

If I have done great things it’s because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual – even redemptive – but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

In the coming races we are still going to try things on the car to give us new ideas for next year, not necessarily 2020 parts already, but definitely directions.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis – which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort – allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

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

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

We shouldn’t pursue things, we should pursue ideas.

Poor people talk about money all the time, rich people talk about things, wealthy people talk about ideas.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.