Quotes About Idea

Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Make a claim that is directionally accurate but has a big exaggeration or factual error in it. Wait for people to notice the exaggeration or error and spend endless hours talking about how wrong it is. When you dedicate focus and energy to an idea, you remember it. And the things that have the most mental impact on you will irrationally seem as though they are high in priority, even if they are not. That's persuasion.

To my friends and colleagues, too—and anyone else I can corner for long enough to deliver a monologue—this idea, that the Mass is "heaven on earth," arrives as news, very good news.

Tyler pinched the bridge of his nose. "I have more than one problem with that idea. The first I'll bring up is that you shouldn't call it Kelly. Destroying a dragon is much, much easier emotionally than killing Kelly. The second is that we're trying to keep from upsetting the little girl, and setting her on fire is probably going to upset her.

He had occasion to notice that the enactment and completion of a well-conceived idea is often subject to so many obstacles and so many coincidences that it often threatens to disappear entirely. Just as it seems to vanish for good, in the middle of so much confusion, success seems possible once more, when time, the best ally of an indefatigable perseverance, offers her helping hand.

The famous Canadian physician William Osler once wrote, "In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Others might point to the warning that the most dangerous thing in science is the idea that arrives before its time.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

A mistake is a physical action; whereas, an idea, wrong or right, is a state of mind, as that context; Whatever mistakes never lie in ideas, whether old, or new that constitute career, future, and a way of life in every system of society; however, ideas can be a risk, but not a mistake. Otherwise, the civilized world was not as it is today.

The idea of a persona goes against North American culture's admiration of openness and authenticity. Europeans have a far better grasp of the value of not saying everything that one is thinking. Yet

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

I learnt, too, that when it's the thoughts of a man that are distorted and flaming like a jungle it's the wickedest and silliest thing you can do to give his mind complete rest. Then, like a spider, his Idea (for everyone has an Idea that is the driving-power of his whole mind) begins to work and weave, out of its own substance, a filmy web that grows and tangles the mind until——

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

DDLJ is one of the few films that credits a person (Kirron Kher) for the 'title idea'. The title is part of the lyrics of a song from the film Chor Machaye Shor (1970).

n idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.