Ideas Quotes - Page 234

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

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

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.