Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes
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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 -
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 -
My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
Lapo Elkann -
My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
Lapo Elkann -
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 -
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
Walker Stapleton -
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel -
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
Salman Rushdie -
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams -
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
Rachel Corrie
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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 -
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley -
Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
Yves Behar -
I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
Foster Friess -
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
H. L. Mencken -
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
Ted Dekker -
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams -
Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision
Anthony Robbins -
I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
Dolly Parton -
We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
Pat Quinn -
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
Steven Johnson