Ideas Quotes - Page 249

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.