Writer's block is often a sign that you're bringing the wrong mental systems to the drafting of the writing process, trying to use focused attention to pull
ideas out of thin air, or skipping the research and incubation part of the process.
They did not pull
these ideas out of thin air.
I didn't come up with
this idea out of thin air, but heard it from other pastors, and even used it when I was a pastor.
Not exact matches
If you have a sense
of dà ‰ jà vu by now, it may be because the
idea of game playing didn't appear
out of thin air.
Great
ideas don't often appear
out of thin air (legends
of Newton and his apple and Archimedes in his bathtub aside).
Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority
of great
ideas don't just pop
out of thin air.
Placentra, 30, an art director with the Wieden + Kennedy ad agency in New York, said he and copywriter Alex Ledford invented «Dilly Dilly»
out of thin air while spit - balling
ideas for a Bud Light commercial called «Banquet» that began running in August.
But the
idea doesn't come
out of thin air, or some random tweet this premier noticed.
The concept
of God did not spring
out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands
of years later used the
idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.
It sounds like you're pulling this crap
out of thin air and you have no
idea what the Bible really says.
Sometimes
ideas seem to materialize
out of thin air and other times, I can't think
of anything to save my life.
The premise
of the
idea is this: Although the Treasury can't just create money
out of thin air to pay its bills, there is a technicality in the law that says the Treasury has special discretion to create platinum coins
of any denomination, and the thinking is that Tim Geithner could make the coin and walk it over to the Federal Reserve and deposit it in the Treasury's bank account.
It's like they saw Idlewild and thought the
idea of a «hip - hop musical» was good, so all
of a sudden everyone in the film starts breakdancing for no reason, scratch decks materialise
out of thin air and everyone starts rapping.
But the reviewer, who hated it, makes the book
out to sound like every
idea is pulled
out of thin air thoughtlessly.
That's the
idea behind Austrian designer Kristof Retezár's Fontus, a «self - filling» water bottle that can make water
out of thin air.
The
idea is that 1 %
of the Earth has warmed 5C and the rest hasn't warmed at all, but because 20 %
of stations are in the areas that have warmed by 5C, the actual increase
of 0.05 C is overstated by a factor 20 (numbers plugged
out of thin air, merely for illustration).
So while a persona can be a useful shortcut once you know your ideal clients» behaviors and needs, it is not a good
idea to just pull a persona
out of thin air.
My career coaching client Margaret in Atlanta said she had a hard time pulling
ideas of what she wanted
out of thin air.