Ideas Quotes
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People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.
Jessica Livingston
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
Donald Miller
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Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
David Allen
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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
Steve Case
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All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
Bent Larsen
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Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.
Akira Toriyama
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The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.
Alex Abreu
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I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
Eve Arnold
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We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."
Ernest Borgnine
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.
Ian Mckellen
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It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
Modest Mussorgsky
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
Steve Jobs
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet
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Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.
Gary Shilling
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The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.
Dana Goldstein
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But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.
Barack Obama
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
William James
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The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.
Allegra Goodman
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You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.
Dan Heath