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Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.
Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.
In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.
The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.
I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.
The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.