Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
-- Adrian Forty -
I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting
-- Adrian Grenier -
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
-- Adrian Lyne -
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
-- Adrian Lyne -
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
-- Adrian Rogers -
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
-- Adriano Celentano -
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.
-- Adrienne Mayor -
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
-- Adrienne Rich -
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
-- Adyashanti -
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
-- Adyashanti -
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
-- Adyashanti -
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
-- Adyashanti -
I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.
-- Aerin Lauder -
There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.
-- Aga Khan III -
Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
-- Agatha Christie -
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....
-- Agatha Christie -
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
-- Agnes de Mille -
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
-- Agnes Martin -
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
-- Agnes Obel -
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
-- Ai Weiwei -
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
-- Aime Cesaire -
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
-- Aimee Bender
