Idea Quotes

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.