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We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.
I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.
It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.
The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.
[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.
Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.
The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.
Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.