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Quotes About Ideas

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
~ Adolf Hitler
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."
~ Tom Clancy
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.
~ Jacob Needleman
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
~ Harvey S. Firestone
Ideias pra músicas. Anotações aleatórias. Coisa que vão se tornar músicas. Coisas sobre as quais talvez eu escreva algum dia, ou que comecei mas não terminei porque não eram suficientes. Se uma música for feita pra durar, a carregamos conosco.
~ Jennifer Niven
If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just places.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sorry about my sister. She's really close with Peter and she gets crazy ideas…" "Crazy ideas?" John repeats. I could slap myself. "Yeah, I mean, she thinks that something's going on with us. But obviously there isn't, and you don't, like, like me like that, so, yeah, it's crazy." Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?
~ Jenny Han
We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.
~ Jenson Button
Ideas are the finery we wrap our brains in, to hide the reptile core that we can't escape. The reptile brain, Ron, is a vestige of the past from which we can't seem to slip loose. We chug-chug-chug toward the future, and the world of ideas grows exponentially, but we are still base creatures at times. We all have those sad, tragic moments where we neglect thought and act on old, withered snippets of instinct.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
~ Jerome Lawrence
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
~ Jerry Garcia
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy.
~ Jerry Z. Muller
An idea which needs rifles to survive dies of its own accord.
~ Jerzy Popie?uszko
This, she said, is a book. It is one of our ways of codifying and keeping human knowledge. When it cannot be kept in a person's head, this is one method of keeping it safe. It is a good way of moving ideas from one head to another, as it only requires one person's time to do it, and not two.
~ Jesse Ball
As Howard Aiken said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
~ Jessica Livingston
Why do you have to correct everything I say?" Julie glanced at his FTW! shirt. "Out of the two of us, I don't think I'm the one that deviates from the norm." The train slammed to a stop. "You're the one who seems to get off arguing." "You sound exactly like Finn. We're exchanging ideas. Debating." Matt looked down at his shorts. "And so far I haven't gotten off.
~ Jessica Park
In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.
~ Erich Fromm
Die Idee, dass man die Wahrheit auf dem Weg des Denkens finden könne, führt nicht nur zum Dogma, sondern auch zur Wissenschaft.
~ Erich Fromm
Indeed, to one for whom having is the main form of relatedness to the world, ideas that cannot easily be pinned down (or penned down) are frightening–like everything else that grows and changes, and thus is not controllable.
~ Erich Fromm
Man—man and woman—can create by planting seeds, by producing material objects, by creating art, by creating ideas, by loving one another. In the act of creation man transcends himself as a creature, raises himself beyond the passivity and accidentalness of his existence into the realm of purposefulness and freedom. In man's need for transcendence lies one of the roots for love, as well as for art, religion and material production.
~ Erich Fromm
Nothing unites people more (without restricting their individuality) than sharing their admiration and love for a person; sharing an idea, a piece of music, a painting, a symbol; sharing in a ritual—and sharing sorrow.
~ Erich Fromm