Ideas Quotes
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The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
Steve Jobs
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I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
Alex Gaskarth
All Time Low
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First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
Udo Dirkschneider
Accept
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Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.
Kansai Yamamoto
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
A. A. Milne
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Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.
Charles Lemert
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I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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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.
Flume
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
Maajid Nawaz
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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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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Kevin Spacey
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Jonathan Ive
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
T. C. Boyle
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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
T. S. Eliot
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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
Alan Alda
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A guy saw us play there and he asked us what the name of the band was. He liked the name but came back with some ideas.He had a letter (of the alphabet) for each of us: X, Y, and Z. He gave Question Mark the "?".
Bobby Balderrama
Question Mark & the Mysterians
