Ideas Quotes
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At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
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Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Sarah Zettel
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I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.
Ransom Riggs
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How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.
Nina Berberova
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
Cate Blanchett
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Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
Steven Bochco
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...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.
Paul Krugman
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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Tony Scott
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Gemma Cairney
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My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.
Charlie Brotman
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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.
Joshua Foer
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
John Maynard Keynes
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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Rhys Darby
