Ideas Quotes - Page 192

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you want to say - even if it takes 20 words to do than make it short and fail to express your idea.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

New ideas often need old buildings.