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Quotes About Idea

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
~ Pat Sajak
Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.
~ Jamie Cullum
I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'
~ Alissa White-Gluz
A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.
~ Angela Yee
The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.
~ Kimbal Musk
I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.
~ Geoff Dyer
The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.
~ Benny Fine
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.
~ Woody Norris
I'm impressed, Tiff. That's a great idea." Her having a great idea was a sobering thought, because if she had in fact gotten brains, too…well, I'd been shortchanged.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.
~ Rae Armantrout
He has an idea. For wood. Or Styron does. Something about boxcars." "Boxcars?" "A mess of them at the old yard." "That's good news. That's real good news." He smiled, and she braced herself for the three words that she knew would follow. "The Lord provides," he said. She felt
~ Rae Meadows
For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now.
~ Rafael Yglesias
It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.
~ Rafael Yglesias
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
the most powerful enemy of the idea of India now is the Indian state.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Graham excuses himself for a moment to go over to his laptop and look up what he had written in his notes after their interview. When he returns, he reports that he had written the following: "Insanely energetic founders. Fund for the new idea." So Graham is not going to be the one who encourages them to pursue
~ Randall E. Stross
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
~ Randall Jarrell
We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.
~ Randy Pausch
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
~ Ray Bradbury
47. Attached By Each Other Float into the air of idea and disappear into the thin wind of thought. Where then is body that comes from soil and flesh that belongs with flesh? Touch earth. Smell its fragrance. Taste its flavours. Man and woman are attached by each other to earth.
~ Ray Grigg
One of the reasons his subordinated lease idea worked so well was that in the late fifties we didn't have the proliferation of franchise operations and the fierce competition for commercial fringe property that developed in the course of the next twenty years.
~ Ray Kroc
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. —W. I. BEVERIDGE
~ Ray Kurzweil
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.
~ Ray William Johnson