You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
