Ideas Quotes
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I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.
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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
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One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.
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... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
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Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change in Peter's habits would make his wife's life radiant. But they all lived blindly, on, each day a day of emptiness, each of those precious days, so crowded with opportunities, and possibilities, and unheeded blessings, and presently life would be behind them, and their chances gone for ever.
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Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in addition it means that you can explore an idea and change it and then change it and then change it; I don't mean by changing the one pot, but you make one pot then you make another that's related to that; you make another - you can make 50 pots in a day and none of them are going to be carbon copies of any other, but they'll all be related because there's something going through your mind about the form on that particular day.
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If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
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I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
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I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
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Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.
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Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.
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I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
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Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.
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The materials shape your idea.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.
