I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren’t right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.
I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it’s like to feel deceived. You don’t have to have run into a con artist to feel like you’ve been deceived by someone.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They’re like the people who become successful and then don’t want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling – though not to me.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’
I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say ‘I want to be a chef,’ and just pour myself into that.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn’t thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Hollywood is an idea. It’s not a real place.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born in the Philippines, where it’s different, because it is about who you know, and who knows what you have to do to get to the top? So they had a lot of that skepticism.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that’s relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
One day, I can come up with 50 content ideas, and I’m like, ‘Boom, I want to do this idea, this idea, this idea.’ I have a YouTube notebook, and I write them all down. Then other days, I’m like, ‘I have no clue what I want to do today.’ I rarely have days like that.
I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
It’s a very smart and heartfelt movie and that’s why, I think, we’re all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard.
I’m insecure about everything, because… I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like.
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don’t have prior awareness, you don’t have any idea what hit you.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It’s not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it’s madness.
The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.
‘Frankenstein’ was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That’s a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
You make the movie through the cinematography – it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
It’s important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.
I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
I’ve been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it’s not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it’s an unhealthy connection.
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science – in all of biology.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
‘LOVE’ bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.
I’m at a place in my life right now where I’m very happy, very content. I’m finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don’t think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950’s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn’t work as well as it does.
I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don’t immediately have to pay their way. It’s like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
I feel like ‘Birds in the Trap’ seem united; it’s just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can’t get their creative idea out.
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
I’d even say it’s a realistic film because that’s the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.
