Ideas Quotes
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The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
Seth Godin -
If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.
Simon Sinek
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I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
Michel Gondry -
The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.
Chip Heath -
As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.
Daniel Pfeiffer -
I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.
Hilary Mantel -
For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.
Nicholas Ozeki -
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
Carl L. Becker
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I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into on a psychedelic experience was somebody's idea of a playpen.
Terence McKenna -
God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
Bob Goff -
I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.
Nora May French -
Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.” “Worse than screaming?” I said. “Much,” he said, nodding. “I mean, at least with an argument, you know what’s happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It’s just –” “So freaking loud,” I finished for him. He pointed at me. “Exactly.
Sarah Dessen -
The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.
Simon Sinek -
All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.
Raymond Smullyan
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
Bill Clinton -
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla -
People have their own ideas how about they should appear.
Mordicai Gerstein -
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 -
No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.
Elena Ferrante -
You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.
Hillary Clinton
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.
Stevie Smith -
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.
Boots Riley -
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.
Nick Park -
It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
Ezra Koenig