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It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.