Quotes on Ideas

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.