Bill Watterson Quotes

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.

When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.