Eleanor Duckworth Quotes

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

Eleanor Duckworth

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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 use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Control

• I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she's qualified to hold the job.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • She
  • Job
  • Experience

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox News, which has created an echo chamber in which people just hear the same ideas repeated ad infinitum. And you know, it's just basic advertising, basically. You hear the same idea over and over again. Or you can call it propaganda if you like.

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Ideas
  • Voice
  • Fox News

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

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Ideas
  • Things