It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
