You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.
The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is that I'm looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.
It's not enough to speak loudly and confidently. You have to know how to get the world on your side, to accept Israel's ideas of security and defending its interests. Netanyahu does not know how to do this.
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas.
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.
I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
