Meaningful Ideas Quotes

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

Don't treat your ideas like they're nothing, don't treat yourself like you're nothing, because you and your ideas are important and meaningful and have the potential to become so much more than you realize.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

Sustentative ideas are more important than applause lines. Substance makes speeches.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.