Quotes About Ideas

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

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

Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Ideas," Hagen said, "are shit. It's knowing what to do with an idea that matters.