Ideas Quotes
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I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Norman Wisdom
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Our ideas are transformed sensations.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
Evan Glodell
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray Bradbury
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.
Benn Northover
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound
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I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot needless footage and then don't use later on in the process.
Steven Spielberg
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Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.
Emily Yoffe
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla
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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
Evan Bayh
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Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.
Bernie Brillstein
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Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
John Scott
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
Anton Webern
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I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.
Brice Marden
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
Herbert Spencer
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.
Andrew Niccol
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
Will Durant
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In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.
Hannes Holm
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Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.
Nick Hodgson
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
Willa Cather