Ideas Quotes

• Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Hope
  • Feelings
  • Hopeless

• If everyone believes in your ideas, they’re probably not that great.

  

  Nathan Vincent Duvall Disciples
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Ideas

• Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do not happen with a naked brain going out and encountering a nonhuman world. And the better we understand ourselves, the better we can do science, as well. So I don't see them - the sciences and the humanities - as being at all different.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Ideas
  • Sciences
  • Humanities

• I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Voice

• What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Simple
  • Forever
  • Wanted

• Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Looks
  • Concerned
  • Bother

• I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Question
  • Taken
  • Two

• Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moving
  • Voice
  • Matter

• The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Company
  • Excuse
  • Barriers

• Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Care
  • Errors
  • Caution

• Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Country
  • Power
  • Understanding

• Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Development

• The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Mathematics

• I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Ideas

• Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

  

  Soulja Boy
  • Ideas
  • Fans
  • Interact

• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Littles
  • Alcohol
  • Flames

• If real, regular, normal, boring life, when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.

  

  Alex Day Chameleon Circuit
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • Religious
  • Leader

• Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

  

  Emma Restall Orr
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Integrated

• It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Single
  • Eyes
  • Simple

• Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

  

  E.W. Jackson
  • Done
  • Black
  • Slavery

• Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Experience
  • Ideas
  • Personal Experiences

• I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Difference

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