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If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.
I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't.
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.
I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.
The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.
We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.
If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.