I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.
I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.
The idea of never settling for less, surely doesn't suggest not acknowledging and celebrating every accomplished step that leads to where you desire to be in the future.
The idea of not being content with any level of success, doesn't by any means call for the absence of gratitude for your daily blessings.
It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
