Ideas Quotes
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.
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When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.
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Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
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We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
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Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
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My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
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Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
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So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
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Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.
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I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.
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Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
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Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring
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The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.
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As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
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Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
