Quotes by Ideas It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers. Alex Pentland peerspeopleideas Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king. Alex Pentland kingsclassideas It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic. Alex Scally handsyearsideas At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face. Alex Steffen heartpeopleideas Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. Alex Tabarrok democracyideasthinking When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show. Alex Timbers realideasthinking A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else. Alex Turner dreamysomewhere-elseideas Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory. Alex Webb editorstryingideas I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. Alex Winter drivencertainideas Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl. Alexa Chung girlboysideas The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad. Alexa Chung feelsgivingideas Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate. Alexa Chung fashionmightideas My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. Alexa Ray Joel growing-upislandsideas The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me. Alexander Chee artistideasinteresting I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out. Alexander Chee getting-lostwayideas Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. Alexander Downer growing-upfatherideas You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. Alexander Graham Bell successfulperfectionideas The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization. Alexander Graham Bell menlooksideas Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. Alexander H. Stephens independenceforeverideas There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious. Alexander Hamilton skillslossideas«1920212223242526272829»
