Ideas Quotes - Page 412

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I like shorter jokes. I like fewer words. I think the more ideas there are the, the fewer words there should be.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter how simplistic or no matter how much you may disagree with them, were fairly well-developed and fairly consistent. Donald Trump is a real-estate branding operator and a reality-show television star whose entrance into big-time politics, as a victor, as someone who will now wield tremendous power, was as shocking to him as it was to everybody else.

The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.