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Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it.
I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.
Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.
When you travel, people might not have the same ideas about what is interesting. I'm not really good at compromising when I travel.
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.
I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.
This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).
Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.
The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.
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.