Idea Quotes
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I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
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The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.
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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?
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Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.
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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
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People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.
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I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.
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I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.
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Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty.
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I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.
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Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
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You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.
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Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
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How can you worry about pleasing people critics and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.
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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
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Globalization is the next big art world idea.
