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Quotes About Ideas

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
~ Carlo Rubbia
I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of.
~ Michael D. Higgins
If President Trump has good ideas, I'll be for them.
~ Amy McGrath
The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
~ Dominic Cooper
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.
~ Bret Stephens
We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.
~ Matt Skiba
I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.
~ Dasha Zhukova
Ideas must always be subjected to debate and challenge.
~ Wes Streeting
We ought to be able to talk about ideas, we ought to be able to debate ideas because that's how you get to consensus and that's how you move this country forward and that's how you move this state forward. We do a better job of it in Iowa. We do.
~ Kim Reynolds
One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.
~ Craig McCracken
In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.
~ Gerard Pique
I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.
~ Eve Babitz
I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
~ Nicholas Lea
When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.
~ Alexa Chung
My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.
~ Julia Davis
I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.
~ Peter Mullan
I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
~ James Mercer
Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
~ Jeff Koons
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
~ David Lynch
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
~ Ferdinand de Saussure