Ideas Quotes
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
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Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
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Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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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.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
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At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.
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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
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I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.
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One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
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What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
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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.
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The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.
