It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.
The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.
I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
