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 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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
Leon Edel
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Edith Hamilton -
Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
Taylor Sheridan -
I like to get in tune with my self and really give myself the time to just be.
Selah Louise Marley -
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
Steven Johnson