I’ve worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I’m a team player. – Jeff Bridges
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. – Horst Koehler
Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be. – Jimmy Chin
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I’ll be lucky. I’m not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it’s hard to find time to deal with them. – Jello Biafra
Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. – John Legend
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. – Jasper Fforde
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out. – John C. Maxwell
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching – that way, you pick up new ideas. – Ian Rankin
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. – Hermann Ebbinghaus
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic. – Jean Paul Gaultier
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing’s more disgusting than a guy who steals another person’s ideas and tries to claim them as his own. – Joe Rogan
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. – Jay-Z
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people’s intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. – Jason Silva
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. – John Ruskin
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven. – Joe Rogan
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. – Joyce Carol Oates
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. – Bong Joon-ho
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. – Ben Nicholson
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. – Alfred North Whitehead
