Quotes about ideas
ideas rocks perspective
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. Rob Reiner
ideas walks
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. Rob Sheffield
ideas branches might
When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation. Rob Brown
ideas president novelists
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. Richard Paul Evans
ideas fundamentals definitions
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. Richard P. Feynman
ideas world process
Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
ideas judging sole
Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.
ideas tests definitions
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.
ideas physics authority
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
ideas intellectual signals
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels. Richard Hofstadter
ideas heaven soul
I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense. Robert Pattinson
ideas want sometimes
I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.
ideas mind might
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas Robert M. Pirsig
ideas ethics virtue
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.
ideas people lighthouse
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
ideas ifs
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
ideas needs currents
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.
ideas people may
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson
ideas together ingredients
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce. Wes Anderson
ideas trying want
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.
ideas different kind
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.
ideas discovery humanity
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained. Walt Disney
ideas worry may
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
ideas years today
Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland
ideas worry incarnation
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. Vissarion Belinsky
ideas scripture progressive
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. Walter Lang
ideas justice littles
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. Walter Lippmann
ideas creative insecurity
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
ideas idols fruit
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
ideas furniture eternity
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
ideas wonderful sensations
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. Voltaire
ideas stomach spite
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.