Barry B. Longyear Quotes

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

Barry B. Longyear

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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Carrying

• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Myself
  • Ideas
  • Laugh

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Influence

• Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Why

• I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Relationship
  • Feelings
  • Been

• I have no human feelings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Feelings
  • Human

• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Running
  • Best

• I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Today
  • Fashion
  • Ideas

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Ideas
  • New
  • Adoption

• The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Why
  • Control
  • Stories

• I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Stories
  • Cooking
  • Dosa

• I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• We have to modernize how we make laws.

  

  Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • Laws
  • Modernize

• Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dream

• Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

  

  Barry B. Longyear
  • Ideas
  • Feelings
  • Stories