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To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.
Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.
Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.
Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.
God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
We believe the super stock option will become a reality before the end of 2000, ... It's a good idea whose time has come.
There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.
Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.
If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.