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Quotes About Ideas

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
~ Amandla Stenberg
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
~ George Edward Woodberry
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
~ James Hillman
Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldnt find a way to make it really fun. Weve got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years.
~ Sid Meier
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
~ Thomas Mann
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
~ Walt Disney
Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
~ Eric Maisel
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
~ Gerry Spence
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.
~ Daniel Amen
Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!
~ Brian Tracy
He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.
~ Michael J. Fox
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
~ Mike Mills
I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.
~ Scott Bradfield
You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.
~ Barack Obama
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
~ Robert Plant
In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.
~ Robert Reich
I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.
~ Stan Lee
When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.
~ E. Franklin Frazier
the whole story of art is not a story of progress in technical proficiency, but a story of changing ideas and requirements.
~ E.H. Gombrich
It is not their standard of craftmanship which is different from ours, but their ideas.
~ E.H. Gombrich
But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
~ E.L. Konigsburg