Ideas Quotes

• When we start designing something, we sketch out ideas with a big, thick Sharpie marker, instead of a ball-point pen. Why? Pen points are too fine. They’re too high-resolution. They encourage you to worry about things that you shouldn’t worry about yet, like perfecting the shading or whether to use a dotted or dashed line. You end up focusing on things that should still be out of focus. A Sharpie makes it impossible to drill down that deep. You can only draw shapes, lines, and boxes. That’s good. The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Ideas
  • Sharpie marker

• Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Beautiful
  • Ideas
  • Wit

• I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Ideas

• Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Ideas

• The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Ideas
  • Memories
  • Hook

• I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Ideas
  • Process
  • Ashamed

• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Matter
  • Evolution
  • Integration

• I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Kids
  • Competition
  • Losing

• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Song
  • Combination
  • Solo

• Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Imagination
  • Ideas
  • Seems

• Countless times, I remember watching him toss ideas—pretty far-out ideas—into the air, just to see how they played. And if they didn’t play well, he would move on.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Ideas
  • Played
  • I Remember

• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Art
  • Communication
  • Photography

• No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Sacrifice
  • Succeed
  • Endure

• You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Born
  • Hard
  • Rich

• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Definitions
  • Tests

• If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Wise
  • Investment
  • Commodity

• You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can’t accomplish a thing.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Confidence
  • Forget
  • Perform

• If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Trying
  • Littles
  • Connected

• Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Ideas
  • Imagine

• If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Book
  • Government
  • China

• I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Ideas
  • Write

• Paper has been the evangelist of many of the convictions that shaped history, carrying them to distant lands or simply to a groundswell of people who could never otherwise have absorbed them. Propagandist, tyrant, democratizer, tool, inventor, magician and technician all in one, paper’s power lies in its absence of personality. Quietly, inexpensively and often slowly, it has seeped around the world, and history’s most galvanizing ideas have hitched a lift on its surface.

  

  Alexander Monro
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Paper

• A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Moral
  • Marketplace
  • Monopoly

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