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If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.
I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'
I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.
My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.
I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.
I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.
Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.
It's sad to have to leave your family but I like the idea of someone believing in something so strongly that are willing to find a new family.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.