Ideas Quotes

• Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Ideas
  • Musicians
  • Ashamed

• We have to consider culture respectfully, but on the other hand, it's dangerous. When we begin talking about cultures, we begin forgetting about individuals. Every individual is unique. Mankind has common feelings and ideas, but we might have some other connections, too. For example, I might be very close to someone in New York in some way. Because of the music I like or how I like to watch soccer games, or because I like to read Russian classics.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Culture
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• The materials shape your idea.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • Ideas
  • Materials

• Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Ideas
  • Right

• The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Dangerous
  • Innocent
  • Politician

• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Development
  • Significance
  • Exponents

• If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.

  

  Reginald Arvizu
  • Reason
  • Listening
  • Drunk

• Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • Opportunity
  • Reason
  • Film

• Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Music
  • Words
  • Change

• I am cold of heart, warm of brain, and given to never-ending meditation; I ponder over ideas, many and weighty, and even over things which can never come to pass.

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Ideas
  • Meditation
  • Pass

• Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Information

• Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Learning
  • Made
  • Noise

• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Charity
  • Common
  • Faces

• If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Ideas
  • Road
  • Follow

• I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Interesting
  • Gorgeous
  • Exotic

• Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.

  

  Walter J. Turner
  • Moments
  • Abandon
  • Vigorous

• What I wanted to tell her was that I didn’t care about sin or about God. I wanted to tell her that God was just a beautiful idea and I didn’t care about beautiful ideas and that He was just a word I hadn’t run into yet, hadn’t met yet, and so He was still a stranger. I wanted to tell her that she was real, and she was so much more beautiful than an idea.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Sin
  • Stranger

• Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Ideas
  • Consequences
  • Erroneous

• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Church
  • Ideas
  • Europe

• What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagine

• When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Organization
  • Embrace
  • Correlation

• I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

  

  Catherine Crowe
  • Spirit
  • Mankind
  • Steps

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