Ideas Quotes

• Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

  

  Michael Bloomberg
  • Power
  • Plans
  • Entrepreneurship

• Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • May
  • Government
  • Acquire

• The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Ideas
  • Optimistic
  • Cheerful

• The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.

  

  Allegra Goodman
  • Ideas
  • Judgment
  • Accusations

• I cannot abide red tape. It never strangles bad ideas, only good ones.

  

  Gillian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Abide
  • Strangle

• People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• Innovation is really the concept of converging disparate ideas in a new way.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Ideas
  • Innovation
  • New Way

• We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Firsts
  • Television
  • Video

• This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Attractive

• Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Up
  • Love
  • Done

• It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Interesting

• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

  

  Charles Douglas Jackson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Happiness

• People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Commit

• As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Film
  • Becoming
  • Transition

• The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Heaven
  • Religious
  • Proof

• Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Theater
  • Bunch

• Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Signification

• 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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Might

• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Ideas
  • Expansive
  • Preclude

• It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.

  

  Anna Dostoyevskaya
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Occupied

• There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Scholars

• In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Behinds
  • Heretic

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