Ideas Quotes

• Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.

  

  Bob Higgins
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Optimist

• Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Space
  • Democracy
  • Extreme

• I get my ideas from listening from within.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Listening

• Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Novelists

• There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Good
  • Great
  • Books

• The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Government
  • Individual

• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Live
  • Value
  • Ideas

• I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Matter
  • Creativity

• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Ideas
  • Precise
  • Readership

• Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Change
  • Ideas

• If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Ideas

• People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Married
  • Rude
  • Reaction

• The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Reflection
  • Operations
  • Furnished

• The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Goal
  • Humans
  • Aim

• I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Work
  • Song
  • Ideas

• The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

  

  Wayne Grudem
  • God
  • Way
  • Scripture

• A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • People
  • Window
  • Errors

• I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Obligation

• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Term
  • Invention
  • Balls

• The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • World
  • Care
  • Enough

• Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • Mind
  • Might

• The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Ignorance
  • Shows
  • Term

• If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Ideas
  • Worry
  • Caves

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