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Quotes About Ideas

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
~ Carol Emshwiller
Momma, I could live with the idea.
~ Carolyn Brown
An individual analyst also can brainstorm to produce a wider range of ideas than a group might generate, without regard for other analysts' egos, opinions, or objections. However, an individual will not have the benefit of others' perspectives to help develop the ideas as fully. Moreover, an individual may have difficulty breaking free of his or her cognitive biases without the benefit of a diverse group.
~ Central Intelligence Agency
Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma.
~ Cesare Pavese
Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma. Ci colpiscono degli altri le parole che risuonano in una zona già nostra – che già viviamo – e facendola vibrare ci permettono di cogliere nuovi spunti dentro di noi.
~ Cesare Pavese
It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
~ Chaim Potok
He became angry. "It should read 'those who fear ideas,' not 'those who fear God.' There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.
~ Chaim Potok
Traditions are born by the power of an initial thrust that hurls acts and ideas across the centuries
~ Chaim Potok
Manfred," I began, exasperated, "I just don't know what to do with you." "I have some very good ideas," he said. He waggled his eyebrows. He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet.
~ Charlaine Harris
Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.
~ Mauricio Macri
I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
~ Eliza Doolittle
I've got so many melodies in my head.
~ Jorja Smith
People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
~ Richelle Mead
We can invent only with memory.
~ Alphonse Karr
I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
~ Bill de Blasio
Mbappe? He has clear ideas. We have seen him grow incredibly day after day. He has the right mentality to establish himself at the top without getting lost along the way.
~ Marco Verratti
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
~ Tom Shadyac
It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my ideas.
~ Frank de Boer
I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.
~ Lauren London
We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
~ Jorge M. Perez
I'm a stand-up comic, but I also have ideas, and I want to get them out. People think getting in front of the mic is the only way to work out. You've got to try different situations.
~ Joey Diaz
As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
~ Max Apple
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
~ Henry Rollins
Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.
~ Javed Akhtar