Quotes About Ideas

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Always keep it simple. Complex ideas make people nervous. Complex ideas as people to think, and people don't want to think.

the idea of using infinity to solve difficult geometry problems has to rank as one of the best ideas anyone ever had.

As the God of the ancient Near East stemmed from ideas of supernaturalism, our concept of a modern God could stem from modern ideas divorced from supernaturalism. [...] A natural God need not intervene in human history, nor be the cause for religious wars such as witnessed through human history.

These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.

more than solve them faster. You can tackle problems that haven't even been considered. You can build your own paradigms

Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project. (Attributed to Mike Jones)

Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Their conversation was like a dance, full of wild tarantellas, when their most speculative ideas would burst forth, only to be followed by slow, stately steps, when they considered they were acting like children, making things up, stepping too far into the domain of fantasy.

Owen's eyes, when he turned his face, were guarded. He had no hunger, particularly, but a certain curiosity. Othman could see ideas and desires swimming unseen beneath the surface of Owen's conscious mind. These would have to be brought out.

I could insult him for his pedestrian intelligence and whacky ideas, but even I know that there is a bit more to life than intellect.