People’s ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People’s prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. – Carly Fiorina
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn’t willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. – Arto Lindsay
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them. – Carine Roitfeld
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don’t focus on the broad ideas; they don’t focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they’re doing. – Aaron D. O’Connell
Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I’m kind of… bionic. – Caitlin Moran
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks – but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks. – Carine Roitfeld
Many people – especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting – have ideas about who should or should not run for president. – Alex Pareene
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. – Arnold H. Glasow
It’s so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I’m being optimistic. And when ‘Leverage’ comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can’t really sit and wait for things to come to you. – Beth Riesgraf
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That’s the fundamental thing. – Ben Horowitz
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. – Boris Johnson
When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing. – Andrew Cuomo
I don’t want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don’t want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process. – Billy Beane
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. – Barry Diller
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask. – Bryn Terfel
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. – Anita Borg
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was – I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling. – Annette Bening
The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It’s not about attendance – it’s about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward. – Cory Gardner
I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas. – Adrian Tomine
My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I’ll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp. – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
By the time we’re adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I didn’t come up through the ranks of the conservative movement… I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. – Andrew Breitbart
I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation. – Bill Shorten
The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all. – Ada Lovelace
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action – ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term. – Bill Shorten
