Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
-- A. A. Gill -
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
-- A. A. Milne -
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
-- A. A. Milne -
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
-- A. D. Gordon -
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
-- A. E. Waite -
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
-- A. E. Waite -
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
-- A. J. McLean -
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
-- A. J. McLean -
I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
-- A. Scott Berg -
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
-- A.C. Grayling -
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
-- Aaron Allston -
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
-- Aaron Belz -
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
-- Aaron Belz -
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
-- Aaron David Miller -
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
-- Aaron Hill -
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
-- Aaron Koblin -
Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.
-- Aaron Ross -
If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods
-- Abbi Glines -
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
-- Abbie Hoffman
