If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. - Donald E. Westlake
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
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. - G. H. Hardy
I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV. - Tyra Banks
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. - Godfrey Harold Hardy
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world. - Boris Yeltsin
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. - Samuel Butler
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. - Isaiah Berlin
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. - Dave Sim
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. - Raymond Chandler
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. - Baruch Spinoza
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. - Claude Williams
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange. - Dizzy Gillespie
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know. - Robert B. Parker
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. - Hjalmar Branting
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. - William Graham Sumner
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. - Lynn Abbey
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. - Margaret Anderson
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! - Bill Watterson
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. - Coco Chanel
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. - Charles Gounod
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
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. - Edward Carpenter