Quotes About Ideas

There are four categories of job-related skills: 1) working with people, 2) working with data and information, 3) working with things, and 4) working with ideas.

The technical term for this shotgun marriage of contrasting thoughts is antithesis, meaning "opposing idea.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

For instance, one thing we'll need to do is create a climate of questioning ideas without evidence. This is not being "mean" or "bashing" or "unprofessional." It's what' professional scientists do. It needs to become our norm.

Cu mult mai mult decât ideile, ale c?ror combina?ii ?i sisteme se constituie prea adesea într-un echilibru instabil ?i ne transform? într-o clip?, circumspan?ele ?i temperamentele, care reprezint? ceva mai superficial ?i în acela?i timp mai profund, sunt cele care decid destinul oamenilor.

Pe bun? dreptate se spunea c? ideile î?i croise drum printre oameni.

We shall all die. But we shall not die together. Something will be left behind us like a trail of light to transmit to succeeding generations all that is great in work and in the imagination. And more than crumbling palaces and mutilated statues, what shines forever in men's memories are the efforts of the mind to lift itself above everyday existence by laughter, terror, metaphysical thought, the beauty of the word, and the brilliance of ideas.

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

But if the great ideas of the past are to remain young and vital, each generation must, in turn, think them through and rediscover them in their pristine newness.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

L'histoire n'est pas seulement celle des réalités concrètes : c'est aussi celle des idées, des sentiments, des regrets et des rêves.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

ceux qui prétendaient n'exposer que des idées. Non : Platon était un auteur de théâtre ; le jeune Hegel avait écrit le plus exaltant des romans d'apprentissage

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Evoking the events of 10 May 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared: We all know that books burn. But we know still better that books can never be destroyed by fire. Men die, but books never die. No man and no violence can extinguish their memory. No man and no violence can lock ideas up for ever in a concentration camp. No man and no violence can chase from the world the works that express the eternal struggle of humanity against tyranny. We know that, in this War, books are weapons.

Immediately after their seizure of power, the Nazis expelled from the theatres all who were known for their progressive ideas.

All beliefs. All concepts. All thoughts. Yes, they're all false; all bullshit. Of course they are. Not just religions and spiritual teachings, but all philosophies, all ideas, all opinions. If you're going for the truth, you're not taking any of them with you. Nothing that says two, not one, survives.

I tend to be a plotter, just because I do have to write an outline of the book for my publisher, and I like to have an idea of where I'm headed. That said, I don't treat the outline as cast in stone, and I often get better ideas as I write, so the outline is a living thing. What often drives change is when I start writing a particular character and she or he asserts themselves more strongly than I thought they would.