Ideas Quotes
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When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.
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I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
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The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
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As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.
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One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.
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Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.
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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 crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.
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Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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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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I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
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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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Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.
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I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.
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The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
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On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things will come around again and bands will once again want to "communicate" "ideas" with their audience, and not just content themselves with providing attitude and atmosphere with clichés on top.
