Ideas Quotes

• When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Jobs

• Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Money
  • Ideas
  • Excited

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • New
  • Be True

• Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Ideas
  • Ignite

• It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Inspiration
  • Radar
  • Alert

• It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Focus
  • Hard

• No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this Theory of Relativity or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Modern
  • Physics
  • Conceptions

• We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to improve Arrowhead-which is oriented for NFL games--for our spectators.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Ideas
  • Remodel
  • Arrowhead Stadium

• I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

  

  Daniel Powter
  • People
  • Trying
  • Gave Up

• A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Trying
  • Pieces
  • Scripts

• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Different
  • Power

• Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Minorities
  • Dozen

• If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Rule

• Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Ideas
  • Singing
  • Great Band

• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Talent

• When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Imagination

• And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Mother
  • Style
  • Couple

• Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

  

  Ian Healy
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Cricket

• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Preacher

• Absorb ideas from every source.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • Absorb

• I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Ideas
  • Individual
  • Genius

• I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Chance
  • Stuff
  • Interviews

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