Idea quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.