Ideas Quotes
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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
Carol Rifka Brunt
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If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.
Gerard I. Nierenberg -
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!
Errol Morris -
The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
Hayao Miyazaki -
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 -
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 -
If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
Norbert Leo Butz
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Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
Evan Osnos -
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
Brett Dennen -
Merely repeating ideas means nothing. You must act—and think—accordingly.
Edwin Catmull -
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
Ray Bradbury -
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
Emil Ruder -
Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
David Cortright
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Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
Scott Adams -
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 -
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
Paul Sabatier -
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.
Tom Green
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You should be able to grab people with ideas.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy -
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.
William Stanley Jevons -
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
Ray Bradbury -
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer