Ideas Quotes - Page 490

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”

I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.