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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.
If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.
Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.
If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big.
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.
Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.
I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.
It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.
I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.
Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.
In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.