Ideas Quotes

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Opinion
  • New York
  • Year

• Ideas without action are useless.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Action
  • Ideas

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Ideas
  • Lying

• Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Taken
  • Things
  • Biology

• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Ideas
  • Liberty
  • Fiction

• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Hungry
  • Bags
  • Meals

• I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Music
  • Character

• When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Rhythms

• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

  

  Kansai Yamamoto
  • Inspiration
  • Cultures
  • Traveling

• Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• Ideas are the source of all things.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • All Things

• When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• No idea should be suppressed. … And it applies to ideas that look like nonsense. We must not forget that some of the best ideas seemed like nonsense at first. The truth will prevail in the end. Nonsense will fall of its own weight, by a sort of intellectual law of gravitation. If we bat it about, we shall only keep an error in the air a little longer. And a new truth will go into orbit.

  

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Truth
  • Ideas
  • Nonsense

• Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Four
  • Add

• I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Years
  • Looks
  • Next

• For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Running
  • Best

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