Eleanor Duckworth Quotes

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for having wonderful ideas.

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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
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Light
  • Things
  • Appreciated

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Things
  • Short
  • University

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Things
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• The good ideas will survive.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Survive

• 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
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Things
  • Internet
  • Finding

• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Things

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Think
  • Always
  • Things

• You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Book
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • Believed
  • Greater

• It is better to watch things then to do them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Things
  • Better
  • Watch

• If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Start

• One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

  

  Ashly Burch
  • Things
  • Producers
  • Uncomfortable

• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Brain
  • Things
  • Believer

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Lyrics
  • Gift
  • Chords

• The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Mind
  • Feelings
  • Magic

• To know enough about things is one prerequisite for having wonderful ideas.

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Ideas
  • Things