Edith Hahn Beer Quotes

When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.

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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

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• 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

• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

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

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • You
  • Action
  • Idea

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Idea
  • Getting
  • Clean

• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Idea

• 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
  • Idea
  • Retire
  • No Idea

• I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Idea
  • Being
  • Youngest

• The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Character
  • Day
  • Idea

• I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Excited

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
  • Understand
  • Hollywood

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Boring

• I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Play
  • Idea
  • Good People

• If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Idea
  • Watch
  • Argue

• I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.

  

  Alexandra Richards
  • Person
  • Computer
  • Tech

• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Military
  • Washington
  • Evacuation

• When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Idea
  • Applications
  • Idiotic