Ideas Quotes - Page 219

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.