Quotes About Ideas

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

When I was at university, I did essays on political theatre. And it was really frustrating that the ideas weren't reaching the people they were talking about. Standup is the one place where you are talking to every level of society.

I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That's probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don't want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.

The best ideas start as conversations.

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.

The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.