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Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett

Best, Business, Fun

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen

Yourself, Mind, Others

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Enough, Process, Needed

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Dennis Prager

Respect, Mind, Vote

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Good, Best, Sleep

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
Taylor Swift

Around, Often, Write

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

Life, Society, Sadness

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

Change, Thinking, Perception

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Sleep, Writing

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton

Worth, Air, Breathing

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch

True, Everything, Dead

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

Money, American, Cinema

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne

Reason, Gift, Run

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

Judge, Artist, Jazz

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott

Life, Eyes, Between

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
David Lynch

Between, Here, Off

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller

Work, Mind, Creative

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Chinua Achebe

Love, Poetry, Beautiful

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush

Time, Yourself, Big

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

Time, Biggest, Bar

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Thinking, Down, Put

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
Daniel Smith

Selfish, Themselves, Move

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
Jeff Bridges

Great, Working, Lucky

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

Team, Opinions, Stuff

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young

Saying, Young, Away

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
Francis Ford Coppola

Lost, Might, Courageous

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
John Cage

Another, Happens

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
Sarah Bernhardt

Theatre, Crowd, Reflex

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca

Won, Brilliant, Anywhere

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese

Truth, Laugh, Makes

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