Ideas Quotes - Page 36

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

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