Quotes About Ideas

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, on the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Great ideas are not charitable.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

Navigating a battle between partisan, progressive organizing and decentralized petition drives is, at bottom, like trying to choose between the Democratic Party and democracy. The ideas are on different planes.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.