Ideas Quotes
-
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.
-
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.
-
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
-
Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
-
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
-
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
-
In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.
-
People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
-
Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.
-
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
-
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
-
There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.
-
The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
-
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
-
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
-
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.
-
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
-
Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.
-
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.
-
What makes economies successful is creative ideas.
-
Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in addition it means that you can explore an idea and change it and then change it and then change it; I don't mean by changing the one pot, but you make one pot then you make another that's related to that; you make another - you can make 50 pots in a day and none of them are going to be carbon copies of any other, but they'll all be related because there's something going through your mind about the form on that particular day.
-
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
-
Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.
-
Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
