Quotes About Idea

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous, political idea to put its brains, energy, labor at the service of the people.

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still

Hating . . . not him exactly, but the idea of him, or the idea of people like him -- and though he has been taught to not believe in the sameness of all such persons, a logic as inborn as the structure of his DNA connect each and every one of them. . .

I have an idea," Cazio said after a moment. "What a lonely creature it must be.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

we are all guilty of oversimplification at one point or another. It's an enticing idea. It fulfills our need for instant gratification. We find one thing and scream, "Eureka!" We found IT—the one thing that explains it all. The only trouble is that it never works. We are more likely to squeeze gold from our coffee grinder than we are to meet with success when adopting an idea that has been simplified beyond recognition.

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I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal 'what's the use?' – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

However great or true an idea may have been to begin with, it is deprived of almost all that which constituted its elevation and its greatness by the mere fact that it has come within the intellectual range of crowds and exerts an influence upon them.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Every martial art, from T'ai Chi Chuan to the nuclear deterrent, is based on a doctrine—an idea of how combat works.

Don't think you can relax your way to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. 691 Don't dismiss a good idea simply because you don't like the source. 692

En las doctrinas de la evolución cultural, un meme es un -replicador- y un propagador: una idea, una moda, una cadena de mensajes o una teoría de la conspiración. En un mal día, un meme es un virus.

I have an idea. It's risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out." Iggy raised his head. "Sounds like my kind of idea.

Robinson sat up and peered out at the lawn. I had no idea you were so deprived. They're the best bugs in the world because they can light up their butts. It's how they find mates

Tommy has a plan

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.