Ideas Quotes
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Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
Ian Hogarth
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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian Hacking
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
Jack Steinberger
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
R. L. Stine
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There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
Lake Bell
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When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
Patrick Collison
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
Adam Grant
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard
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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.
will.i.am
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When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.
Adam Hamilton
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Zahi Hawass
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Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.
Brian Tracy
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin
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Novelty always sparks ideas.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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The good ideas will survive.
Quentin Tarantino
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
Sam Brownback
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It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.
Ben Affleck
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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
Saint Augustine