Ideas Quotes

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

~ William Feather

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

~ George Santayana

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

~ Nelson Mandela

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.

~ Gene Roddenberry

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

~ Rollo May

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

~ Alex Steffen

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.

~ Charles Pelly

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

~ Menachem Begin

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

~ Fred Wilson

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

~ John Scofield

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

~ Kevin Cramer

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

~ Dee Dee Myers

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

~ Dinesh D'souza

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

~ Stefano Gabbana

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

~ Albert Einstein

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

~ Wallace Stevens

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

~ Jerry Hall

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

~ Caroline Kennedy

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

~ Karl Marx

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

~ Andrew Mellon

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

~ Mortimer Adler

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

~ Martin H. Fischer

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

~ Francis Picabia

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

~ Edward De Bono

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

~ Trevor Nunn

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

~ Damon Albarn

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

~ Harrison Birtwistle

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.

~ Joe Rogan

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

~ J. J. Abrams

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

~ J. G. Ballard

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

~ Jan Peter Balkenende

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

~ Alison Goldfrapp

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

~ Gary Neville

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

~ Robin Williams

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

~ Peter Sotos