Ideas Quotes
-
Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.
-
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
-
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
-
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
-
I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.
-
Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.
-
Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
-
Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.
-
Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
-
I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
-
The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.
-
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
-
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
-
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
-
I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.
-
One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.
-
The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.
-
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
-
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.
-
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.
-
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
-
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.
-
The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
-
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.
