Ideas Quotes - Page 74

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.

Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.