Idea Quotes
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My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.
Ellen Langer -
Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.
Adria Petty
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The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
Brian Billick -
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.
Stephanie Coontz -
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
Ezra Klein -
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Victor Hugo -
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?
Bobbi Gibb
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I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.
Emily Barton -
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
Alexander H. Stephens -
Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.
Marianne Williamson -
An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation...
Brigham Young -
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
Ben Miller
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The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.
Clive Rowe -
People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
Nick Bilton -
I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie.
Harrison Ford -
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
Harry Mathews -
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
John Stuart Mill
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Lenin may be proud of what his comrades are doing; the Russian workers are acquiring immortal glory in attempting the realization of what hitherto had been only an abstract idea…..
Georges Sorel -
The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
Adolf Hitler -
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
Jane Austen -
An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
George Polya