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I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.
I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.
Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe.
Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.
The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.
First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
[Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.
One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)