Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
-- Alex Turner -
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
-- Alex Winter -
Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.
-- Alexa Chung -
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."
-- Alexander Dewdney -
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
-- Alexander Downer -
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
-- Alexander Fleming -
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of the union; and therefore the idea of sacrificing the former to the latter is totally inadmissible.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
-- Alexander Kotov -
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
-- Alexander McQueen -
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
-- Alexander McQueen -
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
-- Alexander Payne -
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
-- Alexander Pope -
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.
-- Alexander Stille -
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
-- Alexander Wilson -
Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.
-- Alexandra Potter -
I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him
-- Alexandra Potter -
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself
-- Alexandre Kojeve -
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
-- Alexei Navalny -
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
-- Alexei Sayle
