The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing. – Clay Shirky
I don’t have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don’t even know who the people are. I think that’s good, because then you don’t have preconceived ideas about them. – Christopher Parker
When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he’s going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there’s one guy: the director. It’s different in television. – Holt McCallany
I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything. – Bethany Mota
I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn’t see what was the point. They don’t pay well enough for me to write other people’s ideas. – Brian K. Vaughan
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves. – Agnes Obel
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. – Italo Calvino
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don’t have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older. – Ben Horowitz
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. – John Henry Newman
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it’s me who has to come up with all the ideas. – Billy Bragg
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish. – Brian Eno
I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries. – Anne Sweeney
I don’t look at other people’s work because I don’t want to be distracted by their ideas. – Ann Demeulemeester
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. – Al Yankovic
Businesses are not just local or even national anymore – good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we’ve ever imagined or seen. – Alfred Lin
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. – Jane Smiley
I always liked film as a teaching tool – a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn’t on the list of career options where I grew up. – Brad Pitt
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking. – Ben Nicholson
I’m less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations. – Jack Dorsey
I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. – Ahmet Zappa
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. – Joan Didion
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. – Charles Eames
It’s so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven’t thought of, and all of a sudden you’re like, ‘Wow! That’s so amazing!’ I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better. – Banks
At Intuit, we’ve introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas. – Brad D. Smith
I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit. – Ilan Stavans
