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Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.
I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.
Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.
Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.
I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.
Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.
The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.