Quotes About Idea

Give a brief overview of the value of your idea, no more than 5 or 10 minutes. Then ask people to pair up and write on a piece of paper what would be the same or different at work if the idea were adopted. From this exercise, people begin to see the value of it on their own.

It was going to take a lot to convince her that he was a good idea, although he was pretty sure her body might've already made its decision. He had no idea what it would take to persuade the rest of her.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

In order to test the strength of an idea and the commitment of those who support an idea, we must be tested by opposition.

Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history.

slogans were empty suits draped on the corpse of an idea?

People who do nothing but fall in love are perhaps more serious and saintly than those who sacrifice their love and their hearts to an idea.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

it is the narrator who is the "agent": he himself is the unifying idea. Not through what he tells us about himself or even through what he sees as he travels, but through the way he sees what he sees. It is the character of the persona's perspective that provides the narrative its striking inner life.

You've been driving in my sleep? Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity. To demand of human flesh fidelity.

C'est encore à partir du centre et non de l'extérieur que je peux ordonner. Si je ne fais que me conformer à une idée, aussi sublime soit-elle, cela signifie que quelque part existe la violence qui en est le corollaire, car se conformer n'implique-t-il pas déformer ? (p.250)