Reinhard Selten (Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten) Quotes

It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

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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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
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• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
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  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
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• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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  • Ideas

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
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  • Enough

• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
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  • Small

• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
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• I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Same

• I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
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  • Ideas

• In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
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  • Live

• When I'm on the road, I eat like I'm on the third day of a hiking trip all the time. I'm eating beef jerky and trail mix constantly.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • Road
  • Hiking
  • Constantly

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Ideas
  • Research
  • Hiking