Erik Spiekermann Quotes
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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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.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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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.
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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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.
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Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.
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Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.
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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
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The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
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It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.
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The materials shape your idea.
