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Quotes About Ideas

Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.
~ Mutabaruka
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
~ Rebecca West
A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.
~ Kent Haruf, Plainsong
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Women are never at ease when they have ideas.
~ Edmund Gwenn
The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
~ Frank D. Gilroy
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
~ Trevor Rabin
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
~ Adam Grant
When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.
~ Travis Bradberry
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
~ Eric Schmidt
I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.
~ Jonah Peretti
In the 1980s and 1990s, anglophone conservatives were motivated by ideas so powerful that they spread from the United States and Britain to the rest of the world: faith in democracy, faith in free markets, faith in free trade.
~ Anne Applebaum
While social media can play an important role in spreading messages and democratizing access to ideas, hashtags without organization end up fizzling out.
~ S.E. Cupp
TV is a medium that can be used to spread a positive message but people are spreading bogus ideas in people's minds.
~ Supriya Pathak
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
~ Max Stirner
I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
~ Wilbur Smith
His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.
~ Robert Hilburn
The budget for 'Sanam Re' was Rs 15 crores. I had extravagant ideas for the film, but they had to be curtailed to squeeze into my budget - which meant pre-planning and putting down every single detail on paper.
~ Divya Khosla Kumar
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.
~ Ron Rash
Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.
~ Wolf Blitzer
Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.
~ Amy Cuddy
Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
~ David Leitch
I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto