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Ideas Quotes


"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."



"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."


"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."


"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."


"If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly."


"I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal."


"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."


"Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them."


"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."


"Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe."


"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."


"I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do."


"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."


"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."


"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness."


"Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep."


"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."


"There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it."


"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."


"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."


"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."



"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."


"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."


"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."


"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."


"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea."


"The exchange rate for ideas is infinite."


"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."


"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."


"Send a solid idea to beyond this universe!A neighbour universe will soon be existed."


"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."


"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."


"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."


"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."


"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"


"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"


"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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