Quotes About Idea

To plant your idea in someone's head. To plant someone's money in your own pocket. He who succeeds in the former, we call teacher. He who succeeds with the latter, we call boss. The one who succeeds in both, we call wife. The one who fails in both, we call husband.

the Virginia Company had floated an idea that all English pirates might be pardoned if they agreed to move to Virginia.

I say this and it is short and sharp, without elegance, like a bark; but I have no idea how else to start. I am only a fox: I have no elegances of language.

I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment.

It's worth remembering that from the beginning, rock and roll was never based in musical training or technique, just as punk rock was never about being a good musician and No Wave was at its core about pure expression. Punk rock changed everything, including the whole idea of being a "rock star.

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually—art based on some overriding idea—and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

Come now, my lord. Can we not have a bit of fun with him? (Knight) My idea of amusement is disemboweling those who contradict and annoy me. What say you that you and I have a bit of fun? (Sin)

Beau, ¿vigilas la entrada, por favor? -¿Qué debo hacer si veo algo sospechoso? -Patear un coche-respondió Iain. -¿Patear un coche? -Para activar la alarma. -¡Oralé!-dijo Beau-. Buena idea.

The concept of the computing universe is still just a hypothesis; nothing has been proved. However, I am confident that this idea can help unveil the secrets of nature.

The idea of a pure race is not even a legitimate abstraction," Dobzhansky wrote. "It is a subterfuge to cloak one's ignorance.

And it is at this point that an extraordinary idea occurred to him, a stroke of pure genius: the gravitational field is not diffused through space; the gravitational field is that space itself. This is the idea of the general theory of relativity. Newton's "space," through which things move, and the "gravitational field" are one and the same thing.

Newton, who resuscitated the Democritean idea of space, had tried to patch things up by arguing that space was God's sensorium. No one has ever understood what Newton meant by 'God's sensorium', perhaps not even Newton himself.

Si noti il meraviglioso «Mi sembra...» iniziale, che ricorda l'«Io penso...» con cui Darwin introduce nei suoi taccuini la grande idea che le specie evolvono, o l'«esitazione» di cui parla Faraday quando nel suo libro introduce la rivoluzionaria idea di campo elettrico. Il genio esita.

We are a nation founded on a visionary and, at the time, radical idea. That visionary idea is that every human life has potential, and everyone has the right to fulfill his or her potential. That is what the Founders meant when they wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The next time you face a skeptical audience, paint a picture of the villain before you introduce your product or service—the conquering hero. The villain/hero narrative simplifies the problem your idea solves and, if you use simple words, you might be surprised at just how quickly your idea catches on.

A suicide club? You're a bit young for such a dead-end idea." The girl only lifted one slight shoulder in response, and her friend said, "We're from Jersey," as if that said it all.

Grant said, "I think I like the idea of hanging my stockings twice! But I would not like to run into Old Buck...and get bucked, or something.

Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

I ain't a Kat… and I ain't Krazy… it's what's behind me that I am… it's the idea behind me, Ignatz, and that's wot I am.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that? Or if compelled to be so scholastic as to labour the point they have explained, as usual, that oneself cannot be the absolute because the idea of oneself, to arise, must be contrasted with other ideas. Therefore, you cannot well have the idea of a world in which nothing appears but the idea of yourself.

The steel cartel is dead; but the cartel idea survives.

Inevitably linked with the moment of climax, there is a minor rupture suggestive of death; and conversely the idea of death may play a part in setting sensuality in motion.