Quotes About Ideas

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

I can't wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

Always explore new opportunities and ideas, you never know which will work for you

Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.