Ideas Quotes
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Let us each grasp a new idea this year. Let us grasp the awareness of what it is that makes us truly happy. Let us consider our personal preferences and learn how to recognize, then embrace, moments of happiness that are uniquely our own.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
Seth Godin
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There's going to be competition because there are not enough resources. Resources grow arithmetically, populations grow exponentially. You can't ever have enough resources and that's the foundation of this idea of competition.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
Stephen Sondheim
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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.
Jim Gaffigan
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It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.
Raymond Williams
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My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
Shaun Cassidy
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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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To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
Edgar Alwin Payne
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
Hilary Mantel
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
John Maynard Keynes
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I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
David Bowie
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
William Hazlitt
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When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
Evelyn Underhill
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There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.
Astra Taylor
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Cultural imperialism involved, among many other things, exploration, missionary and humanitarian missions, travel, and the use of education and publishing to disseminate European ideas.
George Ritzer
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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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A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
Richard Kinder
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron
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A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.
Eva Chen
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It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.
Steve Martin
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When the customer is wrong it is not a good idea to tell them.
Garrison Wynn