Quotes About Ideas

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

It is so easy for us theorists who build wonderful castles, beautiful ideas. Sometimes, it is remarkable, sometimes these beautiful ideas prove to be close to what the observations tell us. But often and also they turn out to be wrong.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

One of the tenets that makes America so great is that we value the opportunity to have a battle of ideas and to elect the best possible representation of those ideas.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.