Ideas Quotes - Page 392

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.