#idea

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. ↗

— David Fincher

#around #been #deals #everybody #financed

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#acts #ideas #live #people

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#critics #ever #generation #his #idea

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#beautiful #butterfly #five #floating #four

If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good. ↗

— Dave Foley

#came #dedication #did #else #especially

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#because #brain #coarse #connections #dog

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. ↗

— Henry Ford

#enthusiasm #execute #eyes #gait #grip

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. ↗

— George Foreman

#hard #hard life #house #idea #kids

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal. ↗

— Brad Thor

#along #be different #being #being different #books