Ideas Quotes
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.
Marcus Sakey
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
Niall Horan One Direction -
I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.
Elaine Welteroth -
If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
Barry Manilow -
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
Rachel Joyce
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky -
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
Sam Harris -
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul -
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
Ian Anderson -
There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.
Andre Siegfried
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
Cameron Crowe -
Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.
Seth Godin -
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Barbara Kruger -
If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
Harold Ramis -
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card -
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West
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'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.
Taylor Sheridan -
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy -
I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
Dane Cook -
I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
Jack Dorsey