Explore Quotes on Ideas

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.

If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.