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Night Shift
1982 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Ron Howard
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
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"See, I'm an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day..."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Night_Shift_(film)
The drop line is the funniest though:
"Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the phone! [speaking into tape recorder] Idea to eliminate garbage. Edible paper. You eat it, it's gone! You eat it, it's outta there! No more garbage!"
What'll they think of next? Just wait till "vibe ideas" put the idea men out of work 8-/
It's a line from the movie "Night Shift" with Michael Keaton and Tom Hanks.
Michael Keaton's character says it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U5UH1kQeUA
I've never seen a job ad for "idea people". Usually, idea people are made fun of, like Michael Keaton's character in Night Shift (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084412/quotes) - or Scriber, in A Fire Upon the Deep (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uRjpxtbshBYC&lpg=PT110&ots=aorLn0iZxN&dq=scriber%20%22a%20fire%20upon%20the%20deep%22%20that%20had%20always%20been%20his%20problem%20too&pg=PT110#v=onepage&q=scriber%20%22a%20fire%20upon%20the%20deep%22%20that%20had%20always%20been%20his%20problem%20too&f=false).
"[...] It's that, the actual doing, that's going slow." Scriber nodded knowingly. That had been the central problem in his life too.
The "big" problem is the space of ideas is huge, expanding exponentially, each variation admitting many more ways of varying. And... the vast majority are no good. So youth's easy enthusiasm for ideas quickly turn to caution, doubt, ridicule, and they become bitter cynics before their time, getting very angry with youth's easy enthusiasms.
The exception is an idea that actually has a verified concrete benefit. A good idea. But here, people don't care about the idea; but they care about the benefit.
A common problem is when the greatest benefits of your wonderful idea are not yet verifiable... the solution is to find (or work to create) some benefit - perhaps much smaller than the dream - that is concrete and verifiable. Then, people will adopt it. Ideally, as time goes on, you can add more and more benefits which comprise the dream til it is complete (or at least give you time to work on making real your dream's benefits.)