Ideas Quotes
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Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.
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I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
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As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one program can incorporate the state of the art in user-interface design without sinking into a quagmire of unending royalty payments and legal battles.
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... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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If, after the end of metaphysics, which has been proclaimed by many, there is no final truth and no absolute values orienting and directing political action, then even the noblest democratic, political ideas are finally not only without a foundation; they are then without orientation and can be misused in a populist fashion.
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It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.
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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.
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I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.
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Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
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I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.
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The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.
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The rapidity with which one can completely change one’s ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.
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Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
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Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
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[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
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It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.
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When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
