Quotes About Ideas

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

I've played under many managers - some fantastic, some average, and some not so good. Even if it's not intentional, you log the good ideas and the bad ones.

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

It's been a little bit more of an internal struggle to find the confidence to own my ideas.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained.

People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand

An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.

The classical liberal is someone who stands for freedom, for liberty and for liberation. What we see today within the American academy is the shutting down of ideas. We see ideological fascism rather than academic freedom. The conservative voice is actually more classically liberal because we're arguing for an open, robust exchange of ideas. Why? Because we can trust truth to judge the debate rather than politics or power."

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Never ", said Winston to his cousin " waste time making munitions. Be a GUN, and shoot other's munitions. Don't waste time having ideas." (cousin deeply impressed..but did not achieve lasting preeminence)

The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men.