All Quotes

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.
‐‐ Charles K. Kao

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
‐‐ Auguste Comte

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Ideas have consequences.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
‐‐ Paul Harris

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
‐‐ Guy Debord

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
‐‐ Lauren Myracle

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
‐‐ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
‐‐ Camilo Jose Cela

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
‐‐ Judy Blume

Ideas shape the course of history.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
‐‐ Leon Trotsky

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
‐‐ Hermann Ebbinghaus

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
‐‐ Edward Norton

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
‐‐ Nate Parker

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
‐‐ Alex Lowe

Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.
‐‐ Judith Butler

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
‐‐ Mika

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
‐‐ Matthew Weiner

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
‐‐ Ron Lewis

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
‐‐ James Carville

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco