Ideas Quotes
-
'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
-
My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
-
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
-
It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.
-
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
-
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
-
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
-
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
-
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
-
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
-
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
-
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
-
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
-
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
-
Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking.
-
I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
-
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
-
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
-
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
-
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
-
Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
-
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
-
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
-
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
