You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

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