Odilon Redon Quotes
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking -
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 -
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 -
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel -
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
Lapo Elkann -
Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
Washed Out -
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 -
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 -
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West -
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel -
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
Kate Christensen -
The good ideas will survive.
Quentin Tarantino -
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
Daniel Boulud
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau -
But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.
Quentin Tarantino -
Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
Amadou Hampate Ba -
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
Odilon Redon