S Ideas Quotes

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

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

I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible and I don't really know about the materials, like what's possible, what's not possible.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.

I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?” “Crazy?