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[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.
I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.
Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.
I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.
There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.
There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.
He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.
There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you
It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians
I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.
If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.