S Ideas Quotes
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.
The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.
My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle.” Kate: “He isn’t a poodle. He’s a Doberman mix." Andrea: “Aha. Keep telling yourself that.
