“I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.” TryingIdeasEndsHappeningsLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me AloneJust Leave Me Alone Author:J. J. Abrams
“Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.” MindIdeasHappensPastHappenedSubjectsHappeningsDistracted Book:Turning the Mind Into an Ally Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally
“I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.” PeopleWorldLongIdeasEndsShowsAmericaArtistChallengesOpinionOne DayLong TimeHappeningsDevilDown AndBlueBlameDareVideoBotherEnd Of The WorldHollowControversialAtrocities Author:Marilyn Manson
“I just think the idea of moving away from the body and discovering sensuality by skimming the body, not tightening the body, seems rather new to me. Especially in this world where we're living right now, where the idea of giving freedom to women, especially in politics what's happening, it seemed so appealing to me, so that was the starting point.” ThinkingWorldGivingIdeasBodySeemsMovingThis WorldRight NowHappeningsStartingSensualityDiscoveringStarting PointMoving AwayLiving RightSkimmingLiving Right Now Author:Prabal Gurung
“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"” WritingMadeIdeasRealReasonStoriesFeelingsSeemsRememberReadingImpossiblePossibilityRight NowHappeningsYeahSillyLove StoryRealmsParksDinosaursPlausibleBelievableOutlandishJurassic ParkRealm Of Possibility Author:J. J. Abrams
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.” ThinkingWantLittlesMadeIdeasGovernmentHappensDiesFightingMy OwnSituationDyingHappeningsCancerScaredUrgesFundScareLingeringFighting Cancer Author:Arnold Palmer
“I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.” IfsIdeasWholeUseWeaponsHappeningsConceptsEmpoweringFeminineWitchIronicStakesEmpowering Women Author:Madchen Amick
“I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.” HumansTwoIdeasHuman BeingsHappeningsProperty Author:Martin Freeman
“Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.” MindIdeasSelfEyeUsedMemoriesTakenHappeningsComplexesConnectedSurfaceStreamsDescriptionAnticipationOngoingPenetrateDensityManifoldTactile Author:Terence McKenna
“Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.” LooksIdeasHardLinesAcceptingClassPositionHappeningsPicksThirdsGoing AwayThis DayPalestinianClass Status Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.” IfsGivingBelieveIdeasCharacterCrazyHappeningsGive MeHorribleHospitalsStaffBeing CrazyChalk Author:Michael Rasmussen
“A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.” WantIdeasRealUseWantedYoungChanceSawsPaintingHappeningsRoseWoodsLondonPainterInsects Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.” ThinkingIdeasEnoughActingWonderKissingHappeningsScreensNo IdeaDistracted Author:Dylan O'Brien
“The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.” PeopleIdeasArtistFrontsHappeningsReflectionSellingProjection Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.” IfsThinkingShouldHeartIdeasDreamHappeningsPassionateBeing TrueYour DreamsManifestUnfolding Author:Keke Palmer
“I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing.” PeopleThinkingMenWellsMeanArtIdeasSoulPlayFactsSpiritEmotionHealingWonderfulHappeningsFundamentalsMythRecognitionBoardsMean PeopleSpirit And Soul Author:Caroline Myss
“I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.” IdeasKingsPeriodsConflictHappeningsResearchRebellionTerritoryWalesBeing Authentic Author:Kurt Sutter
“The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than others. The economy has a lot to do with that, as does moral or religious climate.” WorldDoeIdeasWholeReligiousMoralEconomyMovementHappeningsAreasClimateWaveAround The WorldTransgender Author:Kate Bornstein
“I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.” IdeasHappeningsNew IdeasNostalgic Author:Douglas Coupland
“I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.” ThinkingWayShouldIdeasDoneAbleJobsGuyNextCompanyGenerationsDutyHappeningsMetaphorWork OutSymbolsStaffComplaintsNext GenerationBetter Ways Author:Anita Roddick
“I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.” IdeasEndsCharacterStuffResultsNovelHappeningsScriptsEnd ResultsBest Character Author:Alison Pill
“I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.” ArtIdeasQualityRolesHappeningsOptimisticPretendingChildlikeRole Playing Author:Laurel Nakadate
“When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.” FeelsIdeasActionFunSidesBrainLike YouHeroHappeningsWindowNervousNo IdeaLogicalStressedStressed OutAction Heroes Author:Katia Winter
“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindArtIdeasRealSpaceHappenedStreetsMovementPaintingPureHappeningsTrainCuriousSpontaneousReflectingAcademyAngstCombustionFuturistSpontaneous Combustion Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPersonsIdeasEnoughCharacterFeelingsBigsActorsSpaceSkillsHappeningsUnderstoodTechniqueShootingConfused Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.” IdeasDreamGonePlayerMiddleInvolvedPoliticianMajorsHappeningsEastExpectedMiddle EastSyriaEgyptTurkeysOttomans Author:Elif Safak
“And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.” WellsIdeasActorsWonderfulTroubleSceneHappeningsNo IdeaBoardsTexas Author:Angie Harmon
“I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.” WayIdeasStoriesNew YorkBecomingHappeningsPhotographMy WayLandscapeCaliforniaCrucialFrontiersRunawayIconography Author:Justine Kurland
“Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.” IdeasIndividualMy OwnEffortToo MuchRocksDevelopmentSceneMusicianHappeningsPatternsFollowingVicinity Author:Michael Rother
“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.” IfsWantTryingWellsLittlesIdeasEndsSeemsAsksBitsLittle BitHappeningsConnectedDevelopingAsk MeAbstractThemeLike SomethingChoose Me Author:Wes Anderson
“If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.” IfsWorldWayStillsIdeasWarWholeSufferingHateNaturalBearsHappeningsTreatsNatural World Author:W. S. Merwin
“I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.” WantWritingBookIdeasTurnsHappeningsJokesThings HappenEngagedAfter DeathTurn MeBefore Death Author:T.C. Boyle
“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.” PeopleIdeasSeemsKidsVisionCollegeHappeningsRadicalCommunismErasFarmersSaltPreacherAssociatesBankersAcidExperimentationAmerican Society Author:Christine Jennings
“I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind. I want to do what comes my way. No plans, no idea, I believe in things happening organically. Right now the plan is to wrap things up - we've got one more Abbie Hoffman Fest to put together - whatever happens after that is unknown. I'm not going to push anything beyond passive behavior.” WayWantMindBelieveLooksIdeasMightHappensTogetherI BelievePlansRight NowBehaviorHappeningsI Believe InThings HappenMy WayNo IdeaPassiveWrapsWhatever Happens Author:Richard Cotovsky
“As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that's happening around.” NeedsIdeasBehindsPlanetsColdComputerHappeningsMachinesMajorityBreathingMics Author:Lou Doillon
“Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I don't think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least I'm not aware of Buddhism taking the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea.” ThinkingKindIdeasDoneEvilSexChristianityBuddhismHappeningsStanceReally WeirdContraception Author:Brad Warner
“Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.” PeopleIdeasRealShowsProblemDealsBehindsTrainingHappeningsWeaknessCriticalSurfaceRadicalTransparencyReal ProblemsMeritocracy Author:Ray Dalio
“I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!” IfsWritingBelieveIdeasSometimesProblemHandsLosesWalksReturnHappeningsDon't BelieveBlockI've LearnedPencilsGood DayWriter's BlockDoodling Author:Judy Blume
“I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.” PeopleThinkingIdeasJobsPoliticalSituationMiddleEvolutionHappeningsVoteEastOur SocietyIndividualismMiddle EastPolitical SystemsDominatingSociological Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.” IfsGivingMeanIdeasHappeningsConsciousNotesIntensityGood Ideas Author:David Toop
“Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.” IdeasCountryHomeIdentityRight NowHappeningsCriticalFocusedLocalsArchitectBest WorkNational IdentityHome CountryRegionalism Author:Cameron Sinclair
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.” PeopleWayWantTryingIdeasEndsFormHappeningsNot Interested Author:George W. Bush
“I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.” IdeasEnoughWantedSchoolPastSawsHappeningsDecidedGuitarThemeGood EnoughTrendsCampsProliferationClinic Author:Steve Vai
“I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.” WritingIdeasTerribleHappeningsDown AndThings HappenHorribleAbsurdTerrible ThingsOrphan Author:Daniel Handler
“The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections and implementing their beliefs. It's not fate. It's not by accident. It's not coincidence. It's not the result of cosmic forces working against us. It is because specifically of policies, legislation, ideas, whatever you want to call it, implemented, put into action by this administration.” WantIdeasActionBeliefForceResultsFatePolicyHappeningsElectionDemocratSeekingAccidentsAdministrationCosmicCoincidenceLegislationImplementingReelection Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.” IdeasSelfBecomingFindingsHappeningsConceptsHumanismConnectedCriticalColonialism Author:Nigel Gibson
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasCountryStatesUseWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesDemocracyModelsHappeningsCapitalismEconomicsIndiaPopulationNeoliberalismCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Arundhati Roy