BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'
Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'
What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.
I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.
