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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.
Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.
Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.
The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.
When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.
I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an ice lake, so I'd like to come stay.
When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.
We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.
she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)