Ideas Quotes
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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.
James Jackson Toth
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I just really like to find my own ideas.
Michael Burry
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Bob Proctor
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... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.
Noma Bar
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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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To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
Steve Martin
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A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
Paul Newman
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Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
Willy Ley
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Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
Marcel Proust
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
Herbert Spencer
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When you find yourself a mom, you will be by no means seriously by itself with your ideas. A mother usually should think twice, once for herself and once for her boy or girl.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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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 can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Mike Mills
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And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could work through coming to understand why we might both be trying to worship authentically, and because of our cultural background we have these different ideas. But it took a while.
Michael Emerson
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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.
Thelma Houston
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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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To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after the fairy tale wedding. And this thought coincided or coalesced when I was at a wedding of a friend who got married to somebody that literally everybody in the congregation thought that you definitely should not get married to. This was the worst idea either of you have ever had.
Dan Mazer
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
Terence McKenna
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Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
Jeff Bezos
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I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
Bruce Willis