The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.
Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.
Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.
Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that everyone remembers and quotes from the movie.
Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.
Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.
Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.
With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.
I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.
