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All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do. — David Ortiz

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. — Samuel Johnson

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force. — Ron Paul

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile. — Steve Martin

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya — Lydhia Marie

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party. — Amy Dickinson

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. — Alain De Botton

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. — Victor Hugo

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you. — Mark Cuban

When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver. — Abdolkarim Soroush

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do. — J. Michael Straczynski

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making. — David Toop

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. — Brooks Atkinson

Without action, the world would still be an idea. — Georges Doriot

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love. — Cass McCombs

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. — Willy Ley

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really ... slow. -Grabrielle — Ally Carter

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come. — Peace Pilgrim

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule. — Mark Messier

Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. — Jack Dorsey

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work. — George Carlin

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process. — Grace Gealey

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. — Vivienne Westwood

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in. — Kevin Costner

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea. — Michael Redhill

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. — Nils Heribert-Nilsson

When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why. — Joe Reyes

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner

Money is an idea that is more clearly seen with your mind. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny

While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks. — R. Keith Sawyer

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it. — Ramez Naam

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it. — Mike Tyson

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. — Frederick C. Beiser

An idea of awakening is not awakening. It's simply an idea. It's not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives. — Belsebuub

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to. — Rebecca Eaton

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it. — Kevin Spacey

Because an idea lives on after the death of the person. — Patrick Ness

Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She — Kate Atkinson

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before. — Mike Myers

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that. — Jim McKay

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. — Benjamin Disraeli

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. — Nathan McCall

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs. — Denise Fleming

Jeff got an idea that might work. What if he wrote an illustrated journal from the point of view of a middle-school kid? — Patrick Kinney

Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea. — Josh Kaufman

An idea on paper to a reality in large part. — Tom Ridge

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. — Joseph McCabe

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. — Paul Robeson

If you've got an idea, act on it up to its perfection. — Debasish Mridha

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you. — Raymond Chandler

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. — Leah Broadby

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go. — Matthew Barney

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that. — Mooji

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people - though you can nudge it toward suicide. — Joe Randazzo

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said. — Leander Kahney

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns — Natasha Trethewey

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about. — Ruth Reichl

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt

Walk with a smile. You have no idea what a beautiful smile does as it puts an impression on someone when you walk in. — Derren Nash

That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to. — Becky Chambers

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. — Robin Hobb

I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life — Eric Greitens

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

Once Sally gets an idea in her head, there's not much room for too much else ... — Mira Grant

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. — John Mayer

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it. — Olivia Palermo

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect. — E.B. White

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object. — Anne Sullivan Macy

An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. — T. J. Miller

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. — Wallace D. Wattles

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist. — Tim Jackson

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath

Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A plan that is not written is just an idea. — Dwain Siady

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species. — Arthur Koestler

The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born. — Auliq Ice

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage. — Daniel Kahneman

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery. — Joseph Campbell

Everything solid was first an idea. — Vanna Bonta

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define ... or destroy you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh