"ideas" in the Big Book

My judgment and ideas were followed by many to the tune of paper millions.

My ideas about miracles were drastically revised right then.

Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.

chap having queer ideas of fun.

I rather appreciated your ideas about the subtle insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it could not happen to me after what I had learned.

In the realm of the material, men’s minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas.

Show any longshoreman a Sunday supplement describing a proposal to explore the moon by means of a rocket and he will say, “I bet they do it—maybe not so long either.’’ Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?

Our ideas did not work.

Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom.

We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas.

The alcoholic, his wife, his children, his “in-laws,” each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family’s attitude towards himself or herself.

To you, some of the ideas which it contains are novel.