Ideas Quotes
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There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
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Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
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Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
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Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.
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It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
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What I wanted to tell her was that I didn’t care about sin or about God. I wanted to tell her that God was just a beautiful idea and I didn’t care about beautiful ideas and that He was just a word I hadn’t run into yet, hadn’t met yet, and so He was still a stranger. I wanted to tell her that she was real, and she was so much more beautiful than an idea.
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The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
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I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.
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The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
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You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.
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What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.
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Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
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Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do not happen with a naked brain going out and encountering a nonhuman world. And the better we understand ourselves, the better we can do science, as well. So I don't see them - the sciences and the humanities - as being at all different.
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Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.
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A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.
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When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
