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When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?
To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.
I saw her backstage and said hi, took a picture with her. Tried to get a convo going, but the kid had know idea wut to think!
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.
I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.
The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.
I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.
I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write
If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.