The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no… — John Keats Copy Share Image
This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to… — Beck Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children.… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Part of the job involves thinking about things and eliminating them. You spend a lot of time coming up with ideas that… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person.… — Kether Donohue Copy Share Image
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas,… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
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