“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.” FeelsArtIdeasHouseWalksMillionsNo IdeaApartmentGreat ArtFifthAvenuesWarholFifth AvenueMalibuBasquiat Author:Jean Pigozzi
“Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.” PeopleKnowsWayShouldIdeasWalksDealsSkyStrangeShould HaveBridgesPlanesAstonishingNobody KnowsWalks Of LifeClueless Author:Peter York
“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMayLittlesIdeasSoulEndsJoySpiritWalksMistakeWonderCreativityCreativeTearsSorrowSpringLowsWeaknessInnovationMovedRoseResponseIllnessInvisibleHandleMental IllnessRealmsAutumnSunlightCreative PeopleEccentric Author:Duncan Long
“Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.” PeopleWorldIdeasCommunityChallengesWalksPowerfulCareersOffersSmellCirclesBackgroundsAround The WorldVarietyAccountingAppearingAccountantsKiwi Author:Philip Roth
“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'” ThinkingLongIdeasHomeRunningSoundPresidentWalksBusinessCasesFirePlansBuildingOughtWork OutEmsBeneficialExitNew HomeHoover Author:Will Rogers
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.” TryingMindIdeasMotivationalPurposeOrderProcessWalksCreativeStageParticularBrokenEssentialsFlowCombinationBoredomUnconsciousPocketsManifestStillnessCreative ProcessMuseBikeFragmentsFloatsDaydreamingClicksProcessingUnconscious Mind Author:Maria Popova
“It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.” IfsTryingIdeasHappensTurnsFunWalksRecordsGood ThingsStudiosWeird Things Author:Dave Grohl
“I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.” PeopleIdeasGodWalksAppreciateAllowingCondemnationWalking With God Book:Learning to Sing Source: Learning to Sing
“Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.” PeopleIdeasFormRealizingWalksLandDrawsSightEmbracePassionatePracticalsSculptureExactitude Author:Barbara Hepworth
“A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.” ThinkingFirstsKindPersonsIdeasWalksPerfectCommunicateOne TimeGood IdeasOne On OneFirst DatePerfect Date Author:Selena Gomez
“I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.” KnowsWantIdeasWalksTeachTeachingPneumoniaBright Ideas Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.” MenShouldChildrenStillsIdeasDoneUsedMotherDiesEnergyGrowsGrowthWalksTeachGrowing UpProduceHe ManBabyAchievementMotherhoodConstructiveAccumulationConcealed Author:Maria Montessori
“The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.” IdeasWalks Author:Rob Reiner
“Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.” WritingIdeasHandsHoursWalksRoomsFourMetsMiracleShakesNashvilleSharing Ideas Author:Chip Esten
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.” IdeasBigsActorsWalksRoomsTelevisionBuildingOfficeNo IdeaSmarterAuditionsOffice Buildings Author:Kurt Fuller
“We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.” IdeasBlackWalksRaceProudBlacknessReactionariesBarricades Author:Saul Williams
“Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.” IdeasMatterBlackWalksSuccessful Author:Danny Glover
“I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.” IdeasHappensWalksMorningOfficeNo IdeaBridgesEvery Morning Author:Lionel Barber
“I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research.” WayLongIdeasStatesUsedPurposeFoundWalksSituationResearchStriveCurrentsOccasionsPrimariesSundayReviewsSolitaryAutobiographyRelaxationRelaxedCurrent Situation Author:Paul Dirac
“When I do stand-up around the country, I often see people walk out. This is a show that they've purposely gone to, where my name is on the ticket, and it cost them $75 or something. So, you think, Wow, that means that they either didn't know very much about me when they bought their tickets or they're that offended by what I've said. I've been doing this a long time. Anybody who comes to one of my shows must sort of have an idea of where I'm coming from.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanLongSaidIdeasCountryShowsNamesWalksGoneCostLong TimeWowTicketsOffended Author:Bill Maher
“I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.” PeopleIdeasFeelingsWalksOpinionComfortableSecure Author:Todd Solondz
“I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.” PeopleIdeasWalksSeeingFindingsMeetingsNew IdeasWalks Of Life Author:Dave Chappelle
“I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWalksInterestingCreatingMusic IsVery InterestingSoundtracks Author:Brian Eno
“America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.” LooksKindIdeasReasonActionAmericaWalksResponsibilityPowerPiecesFansCallingMoonHighestEncouragementHardestHeyReason WhyBaggageAnything Is Possible Author:Edward de Bono
“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingMayLittlesTwoIdeasDifferentSometimesHomeWould BeTogetherDesireBornImaginationWalksWonderMillionsCreativeCuttingBuiltCookingAround The WorldMeatUnusualVegetablesRecipesVariationSauceProvence Author:James Beard
“There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"” MenGivingFeelsIdeasGuyWalksUniversalDareStudiosHeyOscarsStripes Author:Benicio Del Toro
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea” WantLongIdeasHomeWalksNo IdeaLong Walks Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.” PeopleWorldYearsIdeasPastWalksTalkingEnvironmentHappenedThis WorldWallThousandEnglandEverydayLondonPassingPassingsThousand YearsEveryday LifeIrrelevantSurvivingOld YouRelics Author:Miles Millar
“When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.” IdeasWalksFollowingBudgetsMondayTuesdayParamountDays OffFerris Bueller Author:John Hughes
“When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!” IfsIdeasSidesWalksAngelArmyYour Side Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan