Alexander Wilson Quotes

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
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  • Fact
  • Florida

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • Own

• I have my own studio down in Miami.

  

  Aaron Carter
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  • Miami

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Own
  • Reward

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

  

  J. J. Watt
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  • Retire
  • No Idea

• Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Change
  • Idea

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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  • Own
  • Depend

• I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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  • Mathematics

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Born

• Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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  • Idea

• As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • World
  • Think

• I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Idea

• I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Think
  • Idea

• My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Office

• I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
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  • Time
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• Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

  

  Alexander Wilson
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