Quotes about ideas
ideas human-nature argument
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Sigmund Freud
ideas giving people
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen. Shirley MacLaine
ideas rooms because-i-can
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything! Shirley MacLaine
ideas safety people
If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe. Shepard Fairey
ideas hours knows
I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea. Sergio Aragones
ideas keys execution
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key. Sergey Brin
ideas stuff paid
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. Piper Laurie
ideas people looks
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand. Pierre Bonnard
ideas design vision
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. Philippe Starck
ideas musical keyboards
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli. Keith Jarrett
ideas creating trying
I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like! Katy Perry
ideas parent world
My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside. Katy Perry
ideas bonus care
I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus. Katy Perry
ideas done body
I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body. Katy Perry
ideas majesty sides
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. Ralph Steadman
ideas spirituality
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required. Ramana Maharshi
ideas dying body
The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine." Ramana Maharshi
ideas want stuff
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something. Ralph Fiennes
ideas analysis lasts
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
ideas people fans
The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it. Rachelle Lefevre
ideas hollywood whole
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood. Radha Mitchell
ideas psychedelic standing-out
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna
ideas scorn my-own
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own. Terence McKenna
ideas psychedelic bursting
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. Terence McKenna
ideas imagination levels
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. Terence McKenna
ideas profound mind
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind. Terence McKenna
ideas drug
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs. Terence McKenna
ideas ego enlightenment
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Terence McKenna
ideas space mind
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this. Terence McKenna
ideas knowing shapes
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going. Teju Cole
ideas brain matter
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say. Ted Chiang
ideas max fifteen
I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah. James Patterson
ideas sound max
I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea. James Patterson