Quotes About Idea

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

One of the most valuable thing is an IDEA, as it could be the beginning of a milestone.

A concept is useless without an application and an application is useless without courage.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

A journey on a day that you could say was my idea of heaven.

The great miscalculation of the age is the idea that businesses have to make a choice: to become profitable, or to become platforms for change. This is not the case.

Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.

There is a weird truth to the idea that if you really don't care, things will generally go your way. If you're really invested and emotionally attached, things will get away from you or at least get chaotic and scary.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

And even in my most carnal desires, oriented always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognized as their primary motive an idea, an idea for which I would have laid down my life, at the innermost core of which, as in my day-dreams while I sat reading all afternoon in the garden at Combray, lay the notion of perfection.

I had been getting sidetracked by the idea that an entire fearsome race of aliens had given themselves goofy names because of the names I had thoughtlessly given two of them more than a decade before;

Nothing stops, Mac. If you were able to put an idea into effect tomorrow, it would start changing right away.

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.

A mood of stirred-up unsatisfied desire at whose fringes licks the depressing idea that nothing matters very much, we'll all soon be dead.

I am surprised at how often researchers fail to draft a title early in the development of their projects. In my opinion, the working or draft title becomes a major road sign in research—a tangible idea that the researcher can keep refocusing on and changing as the project goes on (see Glesne & Peshkin, 1992).

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.