Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart. – Edwin Markham
You can’t just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world. – George M. Church
One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life. – Napoleon Hill
When we’re in the shower, when we’re thinking about our idea – boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible. – Eric Ries
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they’ve done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. – Peter Diamandis
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It’s the ideas I’m interested in. What comes out of your head. – Nick Park
Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say ‘sell’, or ‘sell now’, or ‘on sale’ or ‘for sale’? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success. – Fabrice Grinda
It’s true to say that once I’ve got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places. – Michelle Paver
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation. – Ellen Key
The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in. – Fred Wilson
I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it. – Eve Babitz
With writing a song, I’ve always felt, right from the start, like I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don’t ever feel there’s a font of ideas to fall back on. – Nick Cave
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. – Edmund White
It’s really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place. – Marya Hornbacher
I’d like to produce. I’d like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I’d like to be able to do that for people. – Emma Stone
As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate. – Fabrice Grinda
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it’s a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. – Martin Gore
Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don’t. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I’m doing. – David Lloyd
My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I’m not intentionally trying to think of something. – Chris Jordan
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? – Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. – Matt Taibbi
Hart Hanson is one of the coolest, smartest producers I’ve ever worked for. He’s very open to ideas, he says no when he should, he says yes when it would work for the show. – Michaela Conlin
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. – Mike Huckabee
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left. – Dave Brat
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. – Gottfried Leibniz
