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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.
I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.
We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.
Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the right melody.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.
Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.
If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example.
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."
One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.