Quotes About Ideas

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.