Maurice Blanchot Quotes

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

  

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• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

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• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
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• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

  

  Iain Banks
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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
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• The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.

  

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• 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.

  

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• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

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• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
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• If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

  

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• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

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• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
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• No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
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• Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision

  

  Anthony Robbins
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• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

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• What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
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