The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Share This Page