If you’ve got a good idea and you’re willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don’t know when opportunity will come knocking.

Mitsuru: Stop hiding behind your lover!!! You’ve done it right?! Tell me it’s complete!!!
Ritsu: We haven’t done anything!!!!
Mitsuru: Is it good?!?!?! HUH?!?
Ritsu: I have no

Howl : I’ve got it! Why don’t you go to the palace for me?
Old Sophie : Huh?
Howl : Just say that you’re Pendragon’s mother and

Have you ever had a big idea or dream – something you wanted so bad … but you were too scared to make it happen, or maybe you didn’t really believe it could? Think of how often you’ve had someone you looked up to or viewed as successful – shoot one of your suggestions full of holes. Ideas and babies have a lot in common – they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth.

Get naked. I have a plan.

The idea, I decided, is not to think. But how do you stop thinking? Why was I chosen to polish this rail? Why couldn’t I be inside writing editorials about municipal corruption? Well, it could be worse. I could be in China working a rice paddy.

I could hear the Colonel screaming, and I could feel hands on my back as I hunched forward, but I could only see her lying naked on a metal table, a small trickle of blood falling out of her half-teardrop nose, her green eyes open, staring off into the distance, her mouth turned up just enough to suggest the idea of a smile, and she had felt so warm against me, her mouth so soft and warm on mine.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone’s going to love you.

Strong men have good ideas and the strength to put them into action.

I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.

Not a bad way way to spend ten grand.

That’s not what I had in mind.

My idea about the whole thing was that most people weren’t alcoholics, they only thought that they were. It was something that couldn’t be rushed. It took at least twenty years to become a bonafide alcoholic. I was on my 45th year and didn’t regret any of it.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‘Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?’ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

People are more obsessed with the idea of failing than the idea of succeeding.

God often waits until we’re out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

In consequence of limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, many place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man’s salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

Get the basic ideas in place and get moving.

Your attitude is determined by the nature of the ideas that you choose and permit yourself to get emotionally involved in. When your attitude shifts, everything in your world shifts.

Thoughts are things turning your ideas into reality.

I’ve been told that my ideas are grandiose. Yes, they are. However, so were the ideas that marched me through screaming crowds and up the stairs of William Frantz Elementary more than 50 years ago.

Shigure Sohma: Maybe I should call Aaya!
Yuki Sohma: If you call him…
Kyo Sohma: I’ll make you eat that phone.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he’d make a fortune.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe,

Trautman: You got any ideas?
Zaysen: Drop your weapons!
Rambo: Surrounding them’s out.
Trautman: Hell of a time for humor, John.

This is so fun…but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

In the absence of sleep, my restless nights have been fueled by my overactive imagination, weaving waking dreams onto the canvas of conception. Filling my head with lots of ideas waiting to be born into reality. I am eager to return to my beautiful mistress, Creation!

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

Del: I had no idea those beer cans were going to blow like that.
Neal: You left them on a vibrating bed, what did you think was gonna happen?
Del: It’s been a long day. It just – it just didn’t occur to me.
Neal: It didn’t occur to you; so, I have to sleep in a puddle of beer!

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

But sometimes I’ve felt a little constrained by that idea of who I’m meant to be.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God’s creation.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.