Ideas Quotes - Page 336

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be detrimental to the overall balance, which is why we must embark on another comprehensive discussion of the issue once again. I would like to see Europe retain the idea of a constitution in the end, and I plan to campaign on its behalf.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.