I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.
Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.
One positive idea can solve the situation you in, can make a massive difference and change your life forever.
I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." ( , July 21, 2007)
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
