Idea Quotes

• The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

  

  Paul Scheer
  • Idea
  • Write
  • Execute

• The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Science
  • Words
  • Picture

• With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Idea
  • Secrets

• As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

  

  George M. Cohan
  • Idea
  • Composer
  • Playwright

• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • People
  • Japan
  • Asian

• One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

  

  George Eliot
  • Idea
  • Pleasures
  • Miseries

• Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

  

  Sharleen Spiteri Texas
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mistake

• The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

  

  Eddie Pepitone
  • Music
  • Revolution
  • Chase

• Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Change
  • Generous

• I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I liked the idea of starting the movie with the ending and ending it with the beginning, ... I feel that by the end Drew is ready to begin again.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Movie
  • Beginning
  • Ending

• People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Romantic
  • Argentina
  • Change My Life

• I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Artist
  • Never
  • Solo

• If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Idea
  • Dignity

• I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Idea
  • Musicians
  • Student

• We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.

  

  Bradford Morrow
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Compliment

• We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Idea
  • Chances
  • Raised

• I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

  

  Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Idea
  • Writer
  • Graft

• I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Knowledge
  • Danger
  • Instruments

• I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• Thats not a good idea. People need to stay away, ... If they show up and disrupt what were doing, we will arrest them for obstructing justice.

  

  Brian Walker
  • People
  • Idea
  • Stay Away

• If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

  

  Clive Rowe
  • Idea
  • New
  • Pantomime

• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Profession
  • Painter
  • Exalted

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