Idea Quotes
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This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.
Scott Adams
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I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.
Brian Morton
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas A. Edison
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
Ernest Holmes
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
Bono U2
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Thomas A. Edison
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Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
Nikola Tesla
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I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
John Stuart Mill
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There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.
Josh Peck
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I think it would be an excellent idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Eugene Delacroix
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I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.
Hank Green
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
Tony Abbott
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Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
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I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
Norman Wisdom
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi
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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
Anthony Robbins
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I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into compelling characters and stories - but I can't imagine I'll start writing domestic dramas any time soon.
Nick Petrie
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I do love the idea of ritual.
Sarah Silverman
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
Thomas A. Edison
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The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.
Emma Stone
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In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
Heather Brooke