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We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing. — Kanye West

The men of pure-hearted and open-minded
feel no worry about running out of new ideas. — Toba Beta

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. — Frank Caliendo

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in. — Thom Mayne

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. — Kelli O'Hara

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire. — Yanis Varoufakis

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am. — Dawna Markova

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me. — Terry McAuliffe

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Remember, it's the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. — Joel Greenblatt

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo

My ideas are like a Hydra. Remove a bad one and two good ones will take its place. — Paul E. Petty

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war — Robert Black

Do not covet your ideas. — Paul Arden

What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs! — Victor Hugo

Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don't get spoken always fail. — Seth Godin

I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons. — Lindsay Lohan

It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have. — Will Ferrell

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are. — Shunryu Suzuki

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work. — George Carlin

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. — Samuel Alito

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world. — Walt Disney

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. — Matt Mullenweg

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented. — Bryan Batt

The future is built on the flow of new ideas. — Paul Meyer

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances. — Alberto Cairo

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work. — Marcel Duchamp

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them. — Steven Symes

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold

She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother — Lorrie Moore

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. — Ralph Fiennes

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens. — Paul Brown

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. — Jeff Bridges

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. — G.K. Chesterton

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

That's the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests. — Robin Chase

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go. — Matthew Barney

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that. — Mooji

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people - though you can nudge it toward suicide. — Joe Randazzo

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine. — Daisy Donovan

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on. — Eric Christian Olsen

We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person. — Ian Leslie

Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly. — Rolf Smith

Love is and has always been His idea. He came to love us and to teach us how to love. When we do this, life is exciting, beautiful and rewarding. — Joyce Meyer

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter. — Sam Altman

If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas. — Carmine Savastano

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens. — Alberto Cairo

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait. — David Greenberg

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time. — Timbaland

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it. — Olivia Palermo

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart chakra is in the center of the chest. — Frederick Lenz

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns. — Newt Gingrich

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally. — David Gelernter

I never started from ideas but always from character. — Ivan Turgenev

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. — Ira Glass

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect. — E.B. White

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

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. - LINUS PAULING — Thomas Kelley

Innovation = Ideas + Execution + Adoption — Jag Randhawa

New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. — Anonymous

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. — Voltaire

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. — Gwen Stefani

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within. — Liz Phair

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come ... it's painful waiting for them. — Oscar Wilde

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it. — Alan Alda

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you — Jim Rohn

I came up with a good idea ... see-through skin. — Karl Pilkington

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person. — Israelmore Ayivor

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife. — Mike Royer

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do. — Joe Satriani

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. — Adam Smith

Experiencing something of the grace of God should always cause our self-perceived ideas about 'Who He is' and 'How He works' to pop. — Tristan Sherwin

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. — Elizabeth Peters

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested! — Shane Claiborne

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder

Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. — Grace Lee Boggs

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain