Idea Quotes

• The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Great
  • Beauty
  • Idea

• The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Immigration
  • Free Trade

• Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Idea
  • Chemistry
  • Right People

• Donald Trump is an unconventional president doing unconventional things. And the Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan is not something that the traditional establishment would see as a good idea to do, especially when there's not necessarily a policy behind it.

  

  Amy Walter
  • Idea
  • Donald Trump
  • Unconventional

• What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation...

  

  Brigham Young
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Father in Heaven

• As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Idea
  • Blind
  • Colors

• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Idea

• If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

  

  George Stroumboulopoulos
  • Idea
  • Celebrity
  • Interview

• Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.

  

  Alex Kozinski
  • Idea
  • Prove
  • Conclusion

• Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Opportunity
  • Yourself
  • Someone

• I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Aiming

• Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.

  

  Adria Petty
  • Idea
  • Achieve
  • Videos

• Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Idea
  • Deny
  • Testing

• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Idea
  • Dangerous

• I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

  

  Paul Morrissey
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Back

• You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • America
  • Idea
  • Television

• She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Idea

• I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Election
  • Personalities

• The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Good
  • Feelings

• If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Friday
  • Range
  • Attributes

• Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

  

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Education
  • Conscious
  • Relation

• The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

  

  Milton Avery
  • Idea
  • Nothing
  • Head

• I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.

  

  Dean Israelite
  • Development
  • Everyone
  • Absolutely

• A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • War
  • Game
  • Cards

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