Ideas Quotes
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Innovation is really the concept of converging disparate ideas in a new way.
Gary Shapiro
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I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.
Erroll Garner
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Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.
Colin McGinn
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For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
Dick Pound
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When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.
Storm Reid
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The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.
Van Morrison
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Every work of art unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.
Eugene Ionesco
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Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
Ellen Langer
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Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.
Bernie Brillstein
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I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
William Cobbett
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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
Spider Robinson
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt
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This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.
Barack Obama
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ernest Dimnet
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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
Simon Sinek
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Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
Vincente Minnelli
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When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.
Julia Child
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
Judy Blume
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Steve Jobs
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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
William Greider
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One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
Scott Westerfeld