Idea Quotes

• I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Idea
  • Literally

• It solved a real world problem: The killer idea was to make email available on the web

  

  Sabeer Bhatia
  • Idea
  • Available
  • E-mail

• This idea of artistry, this idea of creativity... Ultimately, it has to be just real talk. We have to give a common way for people to access the world around them - even just words and terminology that we know are representative of the future.

  

  Eli Russell Linnetz
  • Creativity
  • Artistry
  • Terminology

• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  

  Steve McFadden
  • Acting
  • Idea
  • Security

• Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Life
  • Why
  • Babies

• The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Rest
  • Author
  • Dunk

• Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Freedom
  • Died
  • Wars

• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Persons

• Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

  

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
  • Kindness
  • Results
  • Achieves

• Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Idea
  • Camera
  • Skin

• I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Idea
  • Writers
  • Consider

• You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Light
  • Bursts
  • Epiphanies

• Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Idea
  • Birth
  • Violent

• The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

  

  Hal Riney
  • Thoughts
  • Idea
  • Creative Person

• I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.

  

  Betsy Blair
  • Girl
  • Authority
  • Mouse

• I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Changed

• If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

  

  Melanie Rawn
  • Inspiration
  • Idea

• I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Road
  • Idea
  • Dome

• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Passion
  • Sleep
  • Stuck

• Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Idea
  • Vocabulary
  • Public Speaking

• Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Idea
  • Rule
  • Resolves

• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • Torture
  • Knitting

• The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Script

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