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What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
I'm always thinking of ideas and sounds. I am waiting on something new and dope to inspire me.
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.
You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.
If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.
I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.
Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.
You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
We don't have the money, because it's been squandered on so many of [Hillary Clinton's] ideas.
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.