Ideas Quotes
-
Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
Oprah Winfrey
-
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
E. L. Konigsburg
-
I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
Iris Apfel
-
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
-
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie
-
I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.
Josh Kopelman
-
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
-
Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
Patrick J. Kennedy
-
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
Gary Paulsen
-
You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
Brian O'Driscoll
-
I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
Laura Haddock
-
The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
Vladimir Lenin
-
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Harrison Birtwistle
-
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
Ralph Baer
-
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
Malcolm Gladwell
-
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
Karl Radek
-
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins
-
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
Ralph Fiennes
-
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier
-
Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.
Richard Feynman
-
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman
-
I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
David O. Russell
-
I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
Taylor Wilson
-
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Rebecca Eaton