If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
My life's all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I'm in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
