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A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.
I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.
This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.
I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.
I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.
The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?
A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.