Silver's workshops are aimed mostly at children, but there's a reason why he's invited to speak at idea-driven conferences like TEDx and PopTech.

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Be as risky and ambitious and idea-driven as you can be.

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The idea of a female-driven blockbuster is on the verge of becoming normal.

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The basic idea is both technology-driven, as you would expect from a company with a strong engineering tradition, and user-centric.

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It will be a testament to the idea that a female-driven genre film can be just as successful as the same sort of film featuring male movie stars.

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Houzz, a design and home remodeling site that allows users to create image-driven idea books and source contractors, has arguably become the largest player in the digital home design space, tallying up 10 million monthly users in the final months of 2012.

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That's the idea that has driven the Urban League, That idea that everyone should have equal opportunity -- that's what brought me to Chicago.

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For example, I often run into criticism of my notion that homeostasis makes evolution a far more intention-driven process than the Darwinist idea can comfortably accommodate.

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But the IOC's decision feels like another money-driven shin-kick to the idea of what makes the Olympics the Olympics.

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It culminates in the creation of a set of data-driven design criteria that will guide our idea generating processes.

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Downing Street says the idea isn't supposed to be driven by top-down meddling.

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That helps to explain the pushback from the State Department, which was publicly taking the heat -- and didn't want the CIA-driven talking points to add to the idea that they had failed to protect their own.

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And Blair's idea of choice is still one handed down from on high by central government through bureaucratic target-driven initiatives like 'Choose and Book'.

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