Quotes About Ideas

Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.

Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

GILMORE    I've talked to people who know more than I do, and people who know less, and I listen, and I decided the only fucking thing I know about death, the only real feeling I have about it, it'll be familiar; I don't think it'll be a harsh, unkind thing. Things that're harsh and unkind, are here on earth, and they're temporary. They don't last. This all passes. That is my summation of my ideas, and I might be all wet.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them. -Tock

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

La elección y la exclusividad son condiciones que la amistad comparte con el amor. La amistad nace de la comunidad y de la coincidencia en las ideas, en los sentimientos o en los intereses. El amor nace de un flechazo; la amistad es el intercambio frecuente y prolongado. El amor es instantáneo; la amistad requiere tiempo.

Las ideas de que las almas se buscan en este mundo por las relaciones que tuvieron antes de descender a la tierra y encarnar en un cuerpo, también es de la estirpe platónica: es la reminiscencia.

Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

He thought of half a dozen ideas before he went to sleep. Ender would be pleased-every one of them was stupid.

And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake wasn't planned. It can't be a cliché. All you have to do is think of a reason why the mistake isn't a mistake at all, and you might have something fresh and wonderful, something to stimulate a story you never thought of quite that way before.

Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter....

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.