Quotes About Ideas

Big opportunities lie in the creation of something new. But that innovation has to be relevant and inspiring, or it will burst into color and fade away as quickly as fireworks.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

This book is a story of encounters between Reef peoples and places, ideas, and environments, over more than two centuries, beginning with James Cook's bewildered voyage through a coral maze and ending with the searing mission of reef scientist John "Charlie" Veron to goad us to act over the impending death of the Reef.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

The racial prejudice that Nazism could so easily exploit was something that few later wanted to admit to. But the old ideas died hard. According to American opinion surveys in October 1945, 20 per cent of those questioned 'went along with Hitler on his treatment of the Jews' and a further 19 per cent remained generally in favour but thought he had gone too far.

Hitler's achievement as a speaker was, therefore, to become the main popularizer of ideas that were in no way his invention, and that served other interests as well as his own.

Well?" "Well what?" "Did you tell them about me? Did you put my plans on the table, did you show the board my sketches, the new plotlines and characters, did you show them my storyboards, what did they think of my new idea?

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Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

From tsunamis to trickles to tsunamis; that is how my ideas do flow.

There's no other shop like a bookshop. No other shop with such depth. No other shop with infinite ideas and possibilities.

To have imagination, is too to have substance.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

That's the alchemy of adjectives: boiling down an excess of ideas to the essence of a thing. We want the words to be precise and evocative. If we pick our adjectives carefully, any description can surprise.

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

No son gente de ideas, los polis. El pensamiento tiene la irritante costumbre de sabotear las certidumbres.

In practice, science is often guided by a search for unifying ideas that are as simple as possible and that connect many different observations with as few explanations as possible.

The smartphone market is limited in terms of new features and ideas right now. That's why it's essential for smartphone brands to come up with something new to gain more traction and improve their business opportunities.

Nunca he pretendido que una sola idea explicara la diversidad del mundo ni un Dios fuera más cierto que numerosos dioses Nunca he pretendido que la psicología excluyera a la biología, ni que tener un sexo excluyera al otro.