People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

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