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The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.
This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.
Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.
Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex.
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.