Idea Quotes
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The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
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The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
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I have yet to see a very good rationale for a split of the department. I have not seen that in the last year and a half. I can't find out where that idea came from.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
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My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally pretty much recognized on both sides of the border. What you find, though, is that logistically it's not impossible.
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
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I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.
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You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
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Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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I like little collaborations where the other thing happens, where it's half-baked or it's improvised, and let's develop it together. "What do you want to wear? Do you have an idea?" All that's fun to do, and I like that, but it doesn't take anything away.
