S Ideas Quotes

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

Just keep plugging ahead with your idea because the tide turns quickly.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

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.

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

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.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

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.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'