Ideas Quotes - Page 356

In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a rewarding experience with technology versus a kind of dehumanizing experience with technology.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.