Idea Driven Quotes

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

If an idea comes and I am attracted to it, I will do it.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I'm okay with suggestions but I want to do what I believe in, because I'm inspired by an idea.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.