“It’s not easy to bring a new idea into existence. It’s not easy even to stand up and talk about why things need to change. I know that from my own experience as a young adolescent searching for my own voice. It’s a long and difficult process, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s never finished. At…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.”— Melinda Gates, amazon.com
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I had an idea for a movie plot where a retired CIA agent searches for his kidnapped daughter in Paris. But it turns out that idea was taken... Then I had another idea where the same agent is kidnapped with his wife in Istanbul, but it turns out that one was Taken 2.”— TheRealWorldNigeria, reddit.com
“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”— Bill Russell, sportsfeelgoodstories.com
“I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“Well, good, that’s the idea. You scare the shit out of people so they can’t see how scared you are.”— Gia Carangi, xys-t.tumblr.com
“It has been a long journey. We felt like we would prevail because we felt like the idea was such a good idea."”— Tim Duncan, successories.com
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”— Alexander Fleming, en.wikiquote.org
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”— Robert Galbraith, amazon.com
“When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“I think of you a lot. I think of you and me walking along in a parking lot at night. Our shoulders rubbing against each other as we listen to our voices. We’re both damaged and beautiful. We know the order of order and the order of disorder. We’ve both been hunted and nearly destroyed by weaklings w…”— Henry Rollins, fuckyeahhenryrollins.tumblr.com