Idea Quotes
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
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What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.
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People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.
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A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
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There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?
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I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
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He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.
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Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something.
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This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
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You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
