John Maynard Keynes Quotes
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.John Maynard Keynes
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking -
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel -
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
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head -
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Nate Mendel Foo Fighters -
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
Damien Hirst -
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
Daniel Boulud -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
Patrick Geddes -
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
Yayoi Kusama -
I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
Danger Mouse -
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
Flume -
Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
G-Eazy
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac -
Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
Jack Charlton -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.
Corrie Ten Boom -
I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.
Cathy Freeman -
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
John Maynard Keynes