Ideas Quotes
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A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.
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I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.
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The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
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All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.
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There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.
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Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.
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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.
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They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
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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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In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.
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Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.
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I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.
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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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Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.
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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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I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
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I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
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It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
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If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
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When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
