Ideas Quotes - Page 167

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.

There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts, they are worth nothing.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are throwing those judgments on other people. And this game has become out of proportion. The whole humanity is suffering from it. If you want to get out of it, the first thing is: Don't judge yourself.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

Ideas are the source of all things

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.