Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
-- Abdallah II -
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
-- Abdul Kalam -
We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.
-- Abdullah Ocalan -
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
-- Abigail Washburn -
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
-- Abraham Robinson -
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
-- Abraham Robinson -
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.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
-- Ace Frehley -
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
-- Adam Arkin -
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
-- Adam Carolla -
If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.
-- Adam Carolla -
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
-- Adam Clarke -
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
-- Adam Gopnik -
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
-- Adam Gopnik -
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.
-- Adam Kirsch -
The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.
-- Adam Leipzig -
I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.
-- Adam Levine -
I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
-- Adam Levine -
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
-- Adam McKay -
You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.
-- Adam Ross
