Idea Quotes

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

Any kind of idea of fame - that has been shelved.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Democracy, which has flourished even in the polluted soil of Europe, would certainly thrive in the virgin soil of America. Here there is no real element of aristocracy, nothing but a sorry caricature. There are not then, my dear general, elements of monarchy in this land of God. Let a republic be formed here and dignity will grow in men... A monarchy established here would be of short duration, for an idea, once implanted in the people, is impossible to extinguish; and the idea of democracy has been firmly rooted here during twelve years of glorious struggle

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

For years people have approached me with great products but have had no way of marketing them.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

An idea is salvation by imagination.