Ideas Quotes - Page 320

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.