Ideas Quotes
Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.
You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.
There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
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Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.