Ideas Quotes - Page 64

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.

Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.

I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.