Ideas Quotes

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the '60s. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

The biggest mistake Yoko and I made... was allowing ourselves to become influenced by the male-macho 'serious revolutionaries,' and their insane ideas about killing people to save them from capitalism and/or communism (depending on your point of view). We should have stuck to our own way of working for peace: bed-ins, billboards, etc.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

Faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.