Ideas Quotes - Page 32

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  Randall Munroe

  Thinking, Google, Comic

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• When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Selfish, Damn You, Desire

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• The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Giving, Spheres

  "Elements of the Philosophy of Right". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821.

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• A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

  Fredric Jameson

  Doe, Littles, Individual

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• Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sometimes, Discovering, Feels

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• When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

  Martha Graham

  Patterns, Ends, Follow Through

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

  Bill T. Jones

  Art, World, Art Making

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• I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

  Tony Kushner

  Theatre, Waking Life, Remember

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Confusion, Want, Facts

  Frank Stella, Robert Carleton Hobbs, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2002). “Frank Stella in 2002”

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• Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Interesting, Momentum, Very Interesting

  "The secret of my excess". Interview with Michael Kimmelman, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2000.

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• Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

  Max Bill

  Taken, Creating, Yield

  Max Bill, Eduard Hüttinger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1978). “Max Bill”

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• In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Trembling, Instance

  Willem De Kooning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1969). “Willem de Kooning”

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• When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Waiting, Opponents, Knows

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• New ideas often need old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Old Buildings, Needs, Building

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• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Vacuums, Philosopher

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.225, David R. Godine Publisher

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• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Powerful, Sight, Sound

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Mean, Men, People

  William Graham Sumner (1971). “Sumner today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments by American leaders”

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• There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

  Neil Peart

  Fighting, People, Behaviour

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

  Barbara Mertz

  Book, Needs, Pages

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• I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Making Money, Selling

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• I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

  Chuck Mangione

  People, Labels, Want

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• I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

  Lily Aldridge

  Flying, No Idea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Delicacy, Superficial

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.6, Arcade Publishing

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• Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

  David Lehman

  Hands, Your Side, Air

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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