If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.
Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
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.
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
