Explore Quotes on Ideas

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

Great ideas are very much 'of the moment,' and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Sometimes I'll try something on piano and move to guitar, but usually that comes after scratching down some ideas for lyrics.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.