Quotes About Ideas

Maurizio is very clear with his ideas and that's good for me because I run, press high and recover the ball.

I am lucky because I often get my makeup done by professionals, and they always try new ideas; I'll attempt to vaguely recreate what they've done.

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.

And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

Il réfléchit qu'il était déjà mort. Il lui apparut que c'était seulement lorsqu'il avait commencé à être capable de formuler ses idées qu'il avait fait le pas décisif. Les conséquences d'un acte sont incluses dans l'acte lui-même. Il écrivit : Le crime de penser n'entraîne pas la mort. Le crime de penser est la mort.

George Orwell on lefty/liberalism :- "the emotional shallowness of a left intelligentsia that lives in a world of ideas not reality, severed from the common culture of the country.

It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.