Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
-- Aldous Huxley -
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
-- Alec Baldwin -
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
-- Alec Waugh -
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.
-- Alessandro Manzoni -
Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones
-- Alex Bogusky -
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
-- Alex Chilton -
If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.
-- Alex Day -
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.
-- Alex Ferguson -
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
-- Alex Ferguson -
You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .
-- Alex Flinn -
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
-- Alex Gansa -
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
-- Alex Garland -
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
-- Alex Kozinski -
I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.
-- Alex Majoli -
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.
-- Alex Pentland -
It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers.
-- Alex Pentland -
At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.
-- Alex Steffen -
America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
-- Alex Tabarrok
