#ideas

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#constantly #day #get #how #i

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#common #common ground #each #entire #ground

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#altered #changed #color #dreamed #dreams

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#any #become #cold #come #established

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beyond #category #get #ideas #into

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#beer #business #coming #dinner #everybody

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#anyone #based #character #draw #else

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conference #died #ever #foolish #grand

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#avoid #brains #doing #i #ideas