I don’t have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve… there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
The birth of the search engine, it’s nothing new: it’s essentially embedded in our literature; it’s how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they’re made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can’t say I’ve written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.
With each film, I get more and more involved and it’s more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people’s preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they’ve never really rebelled.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it’s a tornado that I’m controlling. It’s creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Almost always, great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
As a leader, these attributes – confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense – are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people’s ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it’s one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
There’s so many strict ideas and rules, whether it’s from religion or it’s just generations and generations.
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge’they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
These are the sort of things that push you on in music – the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
I accidentally met Don Callis in Japan. I was at New Japan and I was with mutual friends, and I met Don on accident and started telling him some of my ideas. We started talking and he basically at dinner was saying, ‘Hey, we should give you a job.’
We’re not going back anywhere, we’re going forward, we’re going forward in democracy, we’re going forward in participation, we’re going forward with ideas.
From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn’t is at a clear disadvantage.
I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
I think when I was younger I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn’t sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.
That’s what real punk is about – doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
When you’re younger, you have ideas and visions of what you’re going to be like when you’re older and what love is going to be like and who you’re gonna be married to and all of these different things.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
