The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs. – Raghuram Rajan
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that. – Patrick Collison
I’m supposed to be the director of a television company, but I’ve only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen. – Rory Bremner
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn’t get his ideas from other people all around him. – Robert M. Pirsig
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. – Paul Arden
I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me. – Paula Hawkins
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it. – Rachel Joyce
There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you’re a writer that it’s very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak. – Pierce Brown
I’d like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed – the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find. – Raf Simons
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years. – Salman Rushdie
I bring ideas to set, and I’m more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don’t know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don’t want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I’m not open to what’s coming. – Rose McIver
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. – Ravi Zacharias
Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next. – Richard Branson
If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn’t just think of an idea: they perform them. – Patrick Ness
I’m a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I’m out running. It also helps that I can’t write it down immediately – if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it. – Patrick Ness
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That’s a resource nearly without limit. – Ramez Naam
The universe is so enormous, and we have no idea what’s on the other side of the galaxy. It’s a lovely thing to be able to tap into. I’m definitely not opposed to any supernatural ideas, but I’ve never encountered any. I believe in spirits, but I’ve never seen a ghost. And I believe in Heaven and Hell. – Rose Leslie
I’m like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don’t just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world. – Rick Wagoner
I’ve never turned into a bee – I’ve never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. – R. L. Stine
I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly. – Robert Kiyosaki
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. – Richard P. Feynman
America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any – and perhaps more so than most – regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend. – Robert Zubrin
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as ‘suits’. – Paul Graham
