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Quotes About Ideas

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
~ Alain de Botton
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
~ Graeme Simsion
I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.
~ Alexa Chung
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
~ Beck
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
~ Ben Horowitz
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
~ Bill Ayers
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
~ Brett Dennen
As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
~ Busy Philipps
Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.
~ Damon Lindelof
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
~ Danger Mouse
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
~ Dolly Parton
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.
~ Adam Morris
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
~ Evan Williams
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.
~ Robert Barry
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.
~ Robert Greene
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
~ Rod Stewart
You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.
~ Sam Worthington
This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.
~ Samuel Alito
I'm a message maker. I create products and ideas that help people connect one heart at a time.
~ Sandra Magsamen
A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.
~ Timothy Carey
There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.
~ William Gurstelle
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
~ Laurence Sterne