Ideas Quotes - Page 547

The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your humanness you come into.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as models for the essay. And in some ways that's a good idea, because we can all learn from other genres. But I think it also made me realize that I literally didn't have an essay model, and that if I wanted one I would have to find it.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.