Quotes About Ideas

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.