Idea Quotes
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi -
People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
Brian D. McLaren
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My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"
Winona Ryder -
This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
Edwin Catmull -
The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.
Evelyn Underhill -
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
Hannah Whitall Smith -
Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective
Anthony Robbins -
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?
Haruki Murakami
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The idea that industry is important and therefore must be run by government is one of the ugliest and least American concepts out there.
Bill Whittle -
I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
Erol Alkan -
Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
Ezra Miller -
I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!
Heidi Julavits -
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami -
This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.
Scott Adams
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In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
Heather Brooke -
Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something.
Bob Proctor -
Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
Eric Maisel -
A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
Kevin Costner -
Before You Laugh at the Idea of 'DC Fashion Week' Read This
Denver Nicks -
I missed the idea of him more than he himself.
Beth Harbison