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Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.
It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.
We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want
My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.
My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them
I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.
I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.