Quotes About Ideas

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than when he began reading - that stimulates his thinking, stretches his mind, deepens his feelings. A good book sticks to your ribs.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Some of the best times are training camp and getting your ideas in how you'd like them.

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

Gift cards are kind of like for college kids and sometimes kids because I think kids love the idea of going to buy their own stuff.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

Sometimes when you chat about something, a few ideas come up, you go this way or that way in training.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you're more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you're not as precious with it. You feel like, 'This is going to land, and I'm going to be supported in this.'

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.