Quotes on Ideas

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

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.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.