Quotes About Ideas

Don't treat your ideas like they're nothing, don't treat yourself like you're nothing, because you and your ideas are important and meaningful and have the potential to become so much more than you realize.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Anyone who comes into your office with an idea, and it may be the silliest idea in the world, listen to them and never ridicule them.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

I've always had an overwhelming desire to express a particular set of ideas. As a musician, I'm always working with different people who can teach me new things and, through that, reach closer to an idea of this perfect expression. I'm never setting out to change the face of electronic music; I'm just trying to define this vision.

If you are a manager with a new owner who has more ideas than knowledge, all you can do is get your head down and do your best, which is what Malky Mackay did at Cardiff.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.