Quotes About Ideas

Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.

I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It's not about attendance - it's about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.

Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on 'Back in Black' were ideas we had knocked around on tracks before that: 'That bit - maybe we should take a chunk of that and slug it in here.'

I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.