Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.
-- Adam Sandler -
If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Schneider and Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this Click actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.
-- Adam Sandler -
I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
-- Adam Savage -
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
-- Adam Savage -
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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.
-- Adam Savage -
Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!
-- Adam Savage -
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
-- Adam Smith -
I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!
-- Adela Popescu -
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It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???
-- Adela Popescu -
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
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In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...
-- Adolf Hitler -
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
-- Adolf Hitler -
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent...
-- Adolf Hitler -
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
-- Adolfo Bioy CasaresSource : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
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With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
-- Adora Svitak -
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
-- Adora Svitak -
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
-- Adora SvitakSource : "Dear Parents: Leave Us Alone" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
